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In near future, electric cars can be used for daily travel. Electric cars offer energy savings and pollution free environment, thus can be readily deployed into public transport services. One such application is a case scenario where car hire services are provided by city administration and/or private companies.
Scenario: 1. Consider electric cars commuting all over the city. Each such battery operated car will have its own current power level and performancetobatterypower proportion. All of these cars are run by the public/private company.
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There are multiple recharging stations in the city in different areas having different recharging costs. This is because each area in the city has different pricing policy for power at different time of the day.
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These charging stations are spread all over the city. The cars not currently hired can then use those stations for charging and standby.
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Passenger calls to the central station requesting a car at a particular time to travel from point A to B.
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The passenger will have some convenience index modeled on the time he/she can wait for nearest car to come and pick him/her up.
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The station will then respond with allotting a car which is not only the nearest possible to the customer to reach at the requested point but also ensure that the allotted car has sufficient power level and performancetopower balance to complete the travel it will be hired for.