Abstract
A hydrogen refueling station siting model that considers scheduling and routing decisions of individual vehicles is presented. By coupling a location strategy of the set covering problem (SCP) and a routing and scheduling strategy of the household activity pattern problem, this problem falls into the category of location routing problems. It introduces a tour-based approach to refueling station siting, with tour-construction capability within the model. There are multiple decision makers in this problem: the public sector as the service provider and the collection of individual households that make their own routing decisions to perform a given set of out-of-home activities together with a visit to a refueling location. A solution method that does not require the full information of the coverage matrix is developed to reduce the computational burden. Compared to the point-based SCP the results indicate that the minimum infrastructure requirement may be overestimated when vehicle (refueling demand)-infrastructure (refueling supply) interactions with daily out-of-home activities are excluded.
