Total Recall : An Optimization Model to Help Ban Diesel and Petrol Fueled Cars from paris' streets

Abstract

On October 12th, 2017, Paris' Deputy Mayor, Christophe Najdovski, announced that the city would ban all petrol and diesel fueled cars from circulating within its city limits by 2030. In the aim of achieving this goal, the French energy provider Total has been designated to lead the restructuring of Paris' electric charging network for the next decade and has promised to add an additional 1,830 new 7kWh public charging stations to the existing infrastructure. However, this task has been complicated by the Paris municipality's aim of also eliminating a large portion of its roadside parking spots, pushing public parking almost exclusively to underground car parks. This removes one of main locations where public charging stations are traditionally installed. This thesis adapts an existing optimization model in order to distribute these new charging stations across Paris' arrondissements. The model accelerates the adoption of electric vehicles by minimizing the travel and queuing costs incurred by EV owners. The proximity of the city's existing underground car parks to points of interests is also analyzed, helping determine how charging points should be allocated across this existing infrastructure. An analysis for the city of London is also conducted, demonstrating that the model can be applied to various urban environments.