Network Route Choice Model for Battery Electric Vehicle Drivers with Different Risk Attitudes

Abstract

Research on the range anxiety of battery electric vehicle (BEV) drivers is limited, and research on the route choice of such drivers has been restricted to a fixed range limit modeled as a distance constrained shortest path problem. In this paper, a more general network route choice model based on the range anxiety of BEV drivers is formulated as a nonadditive shortest path problem. More appropriate for BEVs, a tour-based analysis with a continuum of range limits is considered, and an outer approximation algorithm has been used to find the optimal path. Numerical experiments on a small network demonstrate how the routes taken by BEV drivers are influenced by their risk attitudes and uncertainty in the predicted range of the vehicle.