# Pricing and Routing Mechanisms for Differentiated Services in an Electric Vehicle Public Charging Station Network

## TL;DR

This paper develops optimal pricing and routing strategies for a network of EV charging stations, enabling differentiated services that manage demand, wait times, and grid impact while ensuring truthful user parameter reporting.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel framework for joint pricing and routing in EV charging networks with differentiated services, considering both social welfare and profit maximization.

## Key findings

- Designed incentive-compatible pricing and routing policies.
- Achieved demand management and wait time reduction.
- Provided solutions for both social welfare and profit objectives.

## Abstract

We consider a Charging Network Operator (CNO) that owns a network of Electric Vehicle (EV) public charging stations and wishes to offer a menu of differentiated service options for access to its stations. This involves designing optimal pricing and routing schemes for the setting where users cannot directly choose which station they use. Instead, they choose their priority level and energy request amount from the differentiated service menu, and then the CNO directly assigns them to a station on their path. This allows higher priority users to experience lower wait times at stations, and allows the CNO to directly manage demand, exerting a higher level of control that can be used to manage the effect of EV on the grid and control station wait times. We consider the scenarios where the CNO is a social welfare-maximizing or a profit-maximizing entity, and in both cases, design pricing-routing policies that ensure users reveal their true parameters to the CNO.