Retail Roots: Planting the Right Stores with Smart AI Soil
TL;DR for operators Location is the product. For EV charging networks, the technical hardware matters, but the business pain usually begins somewhere less glamorous: the charger is not where drivers actually pause, pass through, or need confidence. The paper behind this article proposes a data-driven system for recommending EV charging station locations in New South Wales by fusing EV GPS trajectories with existing and approved charger data, LGA boundaries, routes, altitude, fire-risk maps, and points of interest.1 Its core move is not “AI magically finds the best charger sites”, because apparently we still have to live in the physical world. The useful move is narrower and more operational: use historical trip density to find candidate demand clusters, then constrain those clusters with geospatial features that make a site more plausible. ...