Practical Grid-Based Spatial Estimation of Number of Electric Vehicles and Public Chargers for Country-Level Planning with Utilization of GIS Data

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

1. English revision (grammar and spelling) is suggested;
2. The citation of reference [20] is missing in the text;
3. The citation is missing in important parts, e.g., some equations, “ Voronoi diagram”, “Euclidean distance”, “Manhattan distance”, etc.
4. It is suggested not to use abbreviated words, e.g., “sq.”, etc.
5. Replace “km.” with “km”.
6. In this article, is “forecasting” or “estimation” addressed? I think “estimation” is the most appropriate term in the classical sense.
7. The definition of variables and parameters is missing in the text, that is, close to the equations.
8. There is a need to improve the quality of the Figures.
9. Highlight the advantages and disadvantages of this proposal.
10. Thus, I suggest to the Authors highlight (objectively) the innovation of this proposal in relation to literature.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The paper deals with an important and current research problem. However, the paper needs to be improved, in my opinion.

1. In the abstract, the purpose of the paper should be added, as well as the main results (including the results given in numbers) and the conclusions of the research. This will encourage readers to read the content of the article.
2. Please consider separating the Literature Review section in the paper.
3. In the case of formulas (1-8) and table 2, explain the abbreviations used. On the other hand, in the case of Figure 5, the legend used is unclear.
4. When discussing the data from Figure 2, three relevant factors (line 236) were indicated, and four are presented. Please do correction.
5. The section Conclusions should be expanded, in my opinion. It is worth punching the main conclusions from the research (including giving the values in numbers).

After the corrections, the paper can be published in my opinion.

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Reviewer 3 Report

This paper proposes a comprehensive approach to forecasting the number of different types of electric vehicles for a wide geographical area. The forecast methodology extensively utilizes the number of vehicle location registration data.

 

This topic is very interesting and this paper is also well written. To enhance the quality of the manuscript, please consider including the comments below.

 

1. In introduction part, the contributions of the paper should be rewritten clearly.

 

2. The computational complexity of the proposed approach to predict the number of different types of electric vehicles should be analyzed.

 

3. The data pre-processing techniques used to deal with the original data should be explained with more details.

 

4. The proposed forecasting approach should be further compared with other commonly-used forecasting approaches.

 

5. The author is invited to perform a thorough proofread of their manuscript, as I can still spot some spelling/grammar mistakes in the paper.

 

6. The literature review about some application scenarios of electric vehicle are not sufficient in the current version of this paper. For example, the following paper titled as “Joint Planning of Electrical Storage and Gas Storage in Power-Gas Distribution Network Considering High-Penetration Electric Vehicle and Gas Vehicle” is suggested to be included.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

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Reviewer 2 Report

After the corrections, the article significantly increased in value, in my opinion. My comments from the review have been taken into account.

The article may need to be edited, e.g. I don't know if there is a need for dots at the end of table and figure titles.

In my opinion, the paper can be published.

Reviewer 3 Report

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