A heuristic approach to the location of the refueling stations for the alternative fuel vehicles

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Growing interests in the global warming, greenhouse gas pollution, and high oil prices generate rapid interests to the alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs). One of the most difficult obstacles for massive AFV adoption is the dense infrastructure for refueling AFVs. In this paper, we introduce the refueling station location problem and its mathematical programming model. Although computational approaches such as column generation are desirable due to a large number of flow variables, we show that simple augmentation of arc sets to a feasible path segments and careful constraint formulation can be a feasible approach for this problem for small to medium sized instance. © 2017 ICIC International.

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