Joint Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing and Scheduling: A Deep Learning-Driven Approach for Dynamic Fleet Sizes

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Autores principales: Yap, Jun Kang, Baskaran, Vishnu Monn, Tan, Wen Shan, Ding, Ze Yang, Wang, Hao, Dowe, David L.
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Publicado: 2025
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author Yap, Jun Kang
Baskaran, Vishnu Monn
Tan, Wen Shan
Ding, Ze Yang
Wang, Hao
Dowe, David L.
author_facet Yap, Jun Kang
Baskaran, Vishnu Monn
Tan, Wen Shan
Ding, Ze Yang
Wang, Hao
Dowe, David L.
contents Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays, with studies highlighting their potential as mobile energy storage systems to provide grid support. Realising this potential requires effective charging coordination, which are often formulated as mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems. However, MIP problems are NP-hard and often intractable when applied to time-sensitive tasks. To address this limitation, we propose a deep learning assisted approach for optimising a day-ahead EV joint routing and scheduling problem with varying number of EVs. This problem simultaneously optimises EV routing, charging, discharging and generator scheduling within a distribution network with renewable energy sources. A convolutional neural network is trained to predict the binary variables, thereby reducing the solution search space and enabling solvers to determine the remaining variables more efficiently. Additionally, a padding mechanism is included to handle the changes in input and output sizes caused by varying number of EVs, thus eliminating the need for re-training. In a case study on the IEEE 33-bus system and Nguyen-Dupuis transportation network, our approach reduced runtime by 97.8% when compared to an unassisted MIP solver, while retaining 99.5% feasibility and deviating less than 0.01% from the optimal solution.
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spellingShingle Joint Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing and Scheduling: A Deep Learning-Driven Approach for Dynamic Fleet Sizes
Yap, Jun Kang
Baskaran, Vishnu Monn
Tan, Wen Shan
Ding, Ze Yang
Wang, Hao
Dowe, David L.
Systems and Control
Electric Vehicles (EVs) are becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays, with studies highlighting their potential as mobile energy storage systems to provide grid support. Realising this potential requires effective charging coordination, which are often formulated as mixed-integer programming (MIP) problems. However, MIP problems are NP-hard and often intractable when applied to time-sensitive tasks. To address this limitation, we propose a deep learning assisted approach for optimising a day-ahead EV joint routing and scheduling problem with varying number of EVs. This problem simultaneously optimises EV routing, charging, discharging and generator scheduling within a distribution network with renewable energy sources. A convolutional neural network is trained to predict the binary variables, thereby reducing the solution search space and enabling solvers to determine the remaining variables more efficiently. Additionally, a padding mechanism is included to handle the changes in input and output sizes caused by varying number of EVs, thus eliminating the need for re-training. In a case study on the IEEE 33-bus system and Nguyen-Dupuis transportation network, our approach reduced runtime by 97.8% when compared to an unassisted MIP solver, while retaining 99.5% feasibility and deviating less than 0.01% from the optimal solution.
title Joint Optimisation of Electric Vehicle Routing and Scheduling: A Deep Learning-Driven Approach for Dynamic Fleet Sizes
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.15307