Evaluation of optimal charging station location for electric vehicles: an Italian case-study

Electric vehicles are accelerating the world transition to sustainableenergy. Nevertheless, the lack of a proper charging station infrastructure inmany real implementations still represents an obstacle for the spread of sucha technology. In this paper, we present a real-case application of optimizationtechniques in order to solve the location problem of electric charging stationsin the district of Biella, Italy. The plan is composed by several progressiveinstallations and the decision makers pursue several objectives that mightconflict each other. For this reason, we present an innovative framework basedon the comparison of several ad-hoc Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) forevaluating many different location aspects.