Location Recommendation for new EV Charging station in Thailand
Spatio and Temporal Data Analysis classroom project
Location Recommendation for new EV Charging station in Thailand
Spatio and Temporal Data Analysis classroom project
(1) Overlay Road density, EV charging station of Energy Absolute, EA (Green pin), and EV charging station of competitor (Purple pin) on Thailand map (Image by Author)
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Background:
- The classroom gets support from “esri Thailand” so we can learn “ArcGIS Pro” during class. (now license expired) 😢😭😰
- Currently, I work in “Energy Absolute, EA” so this project will focus new location for EA company.
- In June 2021, total charging station in Thailand = 664 points
(EA charging = 60% of total)
(2) Thailand EV charging station (Image by Electric Vehicle Association of Thailand)
- Only 1 month period, we focus on only south of Thailand because EA charging does not cover all areas yet
Concept:
- Use overlay and spatial analysis technic to screen high scoring area
(3) Overlay and spatial analysis (Image by Author)
- Score ranking criteria cover
- Every 100 km from Bangkok (Green circle)
- Partner
- Tourist attraction
Step of work:
- Add Tourist attraction data, Partner data, etc. Then, create blue buffer and scoring
- Overlay blue buffer, green circle, and road density in Thailand map
(4) High scoring buffer zone will have more deep blue color that means city area (Image by Author)
- Overlay EV charing of EA and competitors
(5) The result after overlay pin of charging station (Image by Author)
- Create new buffer zone by focusing only top-scoring (red color) and change other buffer zones to grey color
(6) Red color areas are high potential of new charging station (Image by Author)
- Use the data visualization to rank potential areas for the next new charing with team.
- Note: data visualization is only supported information to help team make decisions easier. However, it also requires user experience (real traffic behavior), business strategy, etc.
Result:
- 5 recommended location for new EV charging station on highway area for Bangkok to Hat-Yai
(7) Top 5 recommendations on highway Bangkok to Hat-Yai (Image by Author)
- 10 recommended location for new EV charging station on city area in South of Thailand
(8) Top 10 recommendations on city area in South of Thailand (Image by Author)
- Example Bangkok to Hat-Yai Journey
(9) Example travel journey from Bangkok to Hatyai (Image by Author)
After class:
- I have another problem. Arcgis license expired so I use free tool to create data visualization “Google my map”. Although, the program has some limitation but it still can fulfill our team requirement.
(10) Thailand EV charing station in google my map (Image by Author)
Note:
- This project has 3 member (Panisara, Nutgita and Nattapong)
- We are only beginner of Arcgis and spatial analysis. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to let me know. Thank you 😅😄🤭
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