A Novel Two-Stage Approach for Electric Taxis Charging Station Site Selection

Abstract

The biggest change will occur in taxis which have an important share in transportation along with the dissemination process of electric vehicles (EV). Therefore, charging infrastructure problem must be solved for electric taxis (ETs). It is aimed to solve the site selection problem of electric taxi charging station (ETCS) for Istanbul, a metropolitan city in this study. A four-step solution approach is developed: (i) determination of six main and 25 sub- criteria, (ii) weighting of evaluation criteria using fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (fuzzy AHP), (iii) Performing spatial analysis of criteria via Geographical Information System (GIS) and assigning of ETCSs, (iv) ranking of assigned ETCSs using Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) accordance with performance values. The results show that, in Istanbul, it is seen that the southeast part of the European side and the southwestern part of the Anatolian side are more suitable for ETCS. The proposed methodology approach provides a more accurate solution for high degree of uncertainty problems.