Abstract：Electric car-sharing (ECS), as a component of the sharing economy, is of great significance in alleviating urban traffic congestion and reducing carbon emissions. Electric car-sharing system (ECSS) involves multiple entities such as users, operators and power grids. At present, one-way network operation mode is mostly adopted. Users can pick up and return vehicles at any network specified by the operator, and the operator arranges for vehicles in the network to connect to the power grid for charging. The optimal scheduling of urban electric car-sharing system is needed to solve the increasingly prominent problems such as imbalance between user demand and station cars supply, and mismatch between cars charging and grid operation status. Current strategies for vehicle scheduling are high-cost and coercive, while charging scheduling only ensures vehicle availability, lacking consideration of the impact of vehicle charging on the grid. Addressing these issues, the application of low-cost, non-coercive nudging methods from behavioral economics in the field of ECSS was explored and a coordinated user nudging and charging optimization scheduling method for urban shared electric vehicles was proposed . Firstly, at the level of vehicle scheduling with supply and demand balance, nudging was used to guide user dispatch. Based on actual surveys, the main factors influencing users' choice of return points were identified, and nudging schemes for strong and weak scenarios were designed based on a framework of motivational and cognitive nudges. The revealed fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method (r-FCEM) was used to evaluate the user responsiveness to the nudging schemes, determining the probability of users participating in vehicle dispatch, thereby relocating vehicles from surplus supply points to stations with high demand, and improving operators' rental service income. And then we tested the feasibility of the nudging scheme and found that the design of the nudging scheme for users' choice of return stations can effectively improve user responsiveness and has a certain degree of feasibility. Secondly, for the charging scheduling problem, nudge guided users to return vehicles to low-cost, low-carbon stations, and charging optimization model considering economic and low-carbon factors was designed. Based on deep Q network (DQN), an ECSS operating environment was constructed to simulate the interactions among users, operators, and the grid. After training process, coordinated solutions for nudging and charging optimization were obtained. This resulted in a dispatch plan for vehicle scheduling and a charging schedule for charging optimization. The research first examined the number of vehicles and the travel and arrival volumes at typical stations under nudged and non-nudged scenarios, demonstrating the impact of nudging on supply-demand imbalance and charging optimization issues. It was found that user nudging can alleviate phenomena of under-supply and surplus, guiding vehicles to low-cost, low-carbon stations. Then, four scenarios were set up, revealing that single vehicle scheduling and charging scheduling alone offer limited improvement to the economic benefits of ECSS. It is necessary to solve nudging and charging scheduling in a coordinated manner to enhance user responsiveness through non-coercive strategies, reduce grid load fluctuations, and comprehensively improve the economic efficiency of operators while addressing vehicle scheduling and charging optimization problems. Future work on nudging will expand the scope and number of questionnaire surveys to further validate the feasibility and effectiveness of practical applications. Algorithmically, future research will focus on refined modeling for large-scale ECSS operations and seek better algorithms to adapt to large-scale scenarios.
陈中, 万玲玲, 张梓麒. 面向共享电动汽车的用户助推与充电协同调度[J]. 电工技术学报, 2025, 40(11): 3572-3590.
Chen Zhong, Wan Lingling, Zhang Ziqi. Nudging Users and Charging Optimization for Electric Car-Sharing System Scheduling. Transactions of China Electrotechnical Society, 2025, 40(11): 3572-3590.
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