Need of Integrated Regional Planning Approach for the Decentralisation and Optimisation of Renewable Energy Based Electric Vehicle Infrastructure: A Comprehensive Visualisation
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
In this manuscript, the authors proposed a Need of Integrated Regional Planning Approach for Decentralisation and Optimisation of Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure - A comprehensive visualisation. The overall manuscript is well organized.
• Although the topic is important to the body of literature, but I have some concerns about the ‘scientific contributions’ of this manuscript. Authors are suggested to refine it to highlight the novelty of the work.
• Essentially, the technical discussion in this manuscript and the information is presented without a clear objective/foundation and motivation. Authors are suggested to add one motivation subsection in the Introduction section.
• Authors need to add a comparative analysis table in section 2 to highlight the advantages and discadvantage of the existing approaches.
• A thorough proofreading/restructuring/grammar/sentence formation and spelling checking of this article is essential.
• The article reports generic works and old references without any criticism or a clear message to conclude by the readers and add some latest references as mentioned below:
(i) Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Transactive Energy Management Scheme for Smart Grid System
(ii) AI-Empowered Recommender System for Renewable Energy Harvesting in Smart Grid System
• Result section is week. Authors need to add more technical details along with results into section 5 to justify that how the proposed work is different from other existing study. It will improve the quality of manuscript.
Moderate editing of English language required
Author Response
Reviewer 1
In this manuscript, the authors proposed a Need of Integrated Regional Planning Approach for Decentralisation and Optimisation of Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure - A comprehensive visualisation. The overall manuscript is well organized.
Comment: Although the topic is important to the body of literature, but I have some concerns about the ‘scientific contributions’ of this manuscript. Authors are suggested to refine it to highlight the novelty of the work.
Response: Thank you for the suggestion. Authors have separated out a paragraph on contribution of the paper in section I. The objective of the presented paper is to identify regional settlement hierarchy pattern for sustainable renewable energy electrical vehicle infrastructure growth. The paper discusses the policy and framework required for urban & regional settlement planning for EVs. Therefore, in the beginning paper highlights that most of the exiting research is concentrated on development of charging infrastructure without considering the multi-level hierarchal settlement pattern of a city at regional level. Subsequently, the paper delivers the spatial planning gaps and proposed a methodology to develop a sustainable infrastructure in line with urban & rural planning pattern.
Comment: Essentially, the technical discussion in this manuscript and the information is presented without a clear objective/foundation and motivation. Authors are suggested to add one motivation subsection in the Introduction section.
Response: Thank you for the suggestion. As suggested, to bring clarity on the contribution of the presented paper, authors have segregated the motivation and subsequent contribution in section I.
Comment: Authors need to add a comparative analysis table in section 2 to highlight the advantages and disadvantage of the existing approaches.
Response: Authors have presented the findings/limitations of the research conducted on EV planning, EVCS implementation, electrical grid availability for EVCS, smart grid formation with EV inclusion, etc., in table 1 (as system for REEVI). Similarly for support and services packages in table 2 & 3. As per the suggestion of the reviewer, authors can bring out a comparative table, discussing advantage/disadvantage on EV technological aspect. However, the overall aim of the presented manuscript is to depict that how key parameters like highway corridor, local city region, settlement pattern, nodes & network are being missed out while proposing solution for RE integrated EV charging infrastructure and subsequently manuscript proposes a hierarchical approach from a city planner perspective for technology development like EV infrastructure. Therefore, authors respectfully think that bringing a table discussing technological pro/cons would fade the essence of the manuscript.
Comment: A thorough proofreading/restructuring/grammar/sentence formation and spelling checking of this article is essential.
Response: Authors have conducted the thorough proofreading of the article, also performed the restructuring to enhance the clarity and readability of the manuscript.
Comment: The article reports generic works and old references without any criticism or a clear message to conclude by the readers and add some latest references as mentioned below:
(i) Blockchain-Based Peer-to-Peer Transactive Energy Management Scheme for Smart Grid System
(ii) AI-Empowered Recommender System for Renewable Energy Harvesting in Smart Grid System
Response: The objective of the presented manuscript is to segregate the papers in three dimensions i.e. system, support & services inline with REEVI development. Thenceforth, presenting the spatial planning gaps for urban & rural development duly accounting REEVI. Therefore, the overall aim of the manuscript is to present evidential gaps for city planning by accounting research papers on system, support & services. The suggested papers by reviewer fall under the system category (smart grid management), which have been considered and cited at appropriate place by the authors.
Comment: Result section is week. Authors need to add more technical details along with results into section 5 to justify that how the proposed work is different from other existing study. It will improve the quality of manuscript.
Response: The presented manuscript is a review article to identify the spatial planning gaps for REEVI. Therefore, having a result section goes oddly in terms of review article (the same has also been pointed out by one of reviewer). Consequently, authors have changed the section heading with, “Proposed methodology for Integrated Regional Spatial Planning REEVI-SSS decentralisation and optimization”. The section aims to deliver a hierarchical methodology to achieve REEVI development with city planning duly considering other factors e.g. highways, settlement pattern, local city region, nodes & network, transit activities and work-home relation. Therefore, author consider that reviewers’ point has been addressed with our utmost sincerity to improve the quality of the paper.
Reviewer 2 Report
Dear authors, the submitted manuscript is an extensive and complete review. I consider that it is necessary to carry out a grammar review and avoid the excessive use of i.e or etc.
On the other hand, improve the edition of the figures, both in size and quality.
Moderate editing of English language required
Author Response
Reviewer 2
Comment: Dear authors, the submitted manuscript is an extensive and complete review. I consider that it is necessary to carry out a grammar review and avoid the excessive use of i.e or etc.
Response: Thank you for the suggestion. Authors have thoroughly performed the manuscript check and also taken care of excessive use of i.e. or etc.
Comment: On the other hand, improve the edition of the figures, both in size and quality.
Response: Thank you for pointing out the impaired figures quality. Authors have improved the quality of the figures to enhance the readability
Reviewer 3 Report
First of all please dont produce new concept and abbreviations!! renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI). Avoid these concepts. We have for example
renewable energy-based charging infrastructure for electric vehicles
electric vehicle charging using renewable energy
The paper is not written in good format.
Section 2 is material and methods and then section 3 is Methodology!!?
Review paper should not have results section but discussion section
research gaps also is mentioning inside discussion.
the paper is written to complicated and not uniform.
we have a lot of paper even review papers regarding this issue (integration of RES and EV charging).
It should be more strong and motivated by evaluating all other related papers specially those review papers.
Author Response
Comment: First of all please dont produce new concept and abbreviations!! renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI). Avoid these concepts. We have for example
renewable energy-based charging infrastructure for electric vehicles
electric vehicle charging using renewable energy
Response: Thank you for pointing out the jargon created with lots of abbreviation. Authors would like to put forward their point respectfully in this regard. The word “Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI)” has been used very frequently throughout the paper, which consists of all the system, support & services for sustainable EV growth along with city planning, not only charging infrastructure. Therefore, to improve the brevity of the manuscript authors have abbreviated the whole term with REEVI, not with the intentions to overflow the abbreviation jargon in literature. Moreover, for the ease of reader’s point of view, authors have inserted the list of abbreviations before the introduction section. Authors sincerely hope that they have convey their point to the reviewer.
Comment: The paper is not written in good format.
Response: Thank you for pointing out the concern. Authors have restructured the whole manuscript to better convey the objectives and findings of the paper.
Comment: Section 2 is material and methods and then section 3 is Methodology!!?
Response: Authors completely agreed with reviewer’s puzzlement. Authors have changed the section headings for better understanding and new structure of the paper is as follow:
Abstract
Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Contribution of the paper
- Organisation of the paper
- Classification of system, support and services for REEVI package and spatial planning
- System
- Support
- Services
- Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI) package
- Hierarchy and Scale in Integrated Regional Spatial Planning
- Methodology to identify spatial planning gaps.
- Distribution of literature over the last two decades and missing linkages
- Proposed methodology for Integrated Regional Spatial Planning REEVI-SSS decentralisation and optimization
- Discussion
- Conclusion
Comment: Review paper should not have results section but discussion section
Response: Author agrees with the reviewer’s suggestion. Authors have changed the section heading with, “Proposed methodology for Integrated Regional Spatial Planning REEVI-SSS decentralisation and optimization”. The section aims to deliver a hierarchical methodology to achieve REEVI development with city planning duly considering other factors e.g. highways, settlement pattern, local city region, nodes & network, transit activities and work-home relations.
Comments: research gaps also is mentioning inside discussion.
Response: Authors have referred the papers in discussion section to discuss the need of better policies and framework for regional planning duly accounting the sustainable EV growth. The discussion section is only to put forward the evidential gist of the overall paper for better framework.
Comments: the paper is written to complicated and not uniform.
Response: Authors have restructured the whole manuscript to enhance the readability and clarity.
Comments: we have a lot of paper even review papers regarding this issue (integration of RES and EV charging).
Response: Authors agree that many papers are available in the literature on technological aspects (integration of RES and EV charging). However, the objective of the manuscript is to address the gaps related with spatial planning for an urban & rural area with sustainable REEVI development. Authors have clearly pointed out that most of the articles in literature are on technology development for EV charging infrastructure without considering the city planning and settlement pattern. Thenceforth, authors have made an attempt to bring out the missing linkage in spatial planning for energy decentralisation, EVI and city development plan.
Comments: It should be more strong and motivated by evaluating all other related papers specially those review papers.
Response: As respectfully stated in the above response, authors have brought out the missing linkages which is not confined to technology development only. Therefore, authors have considered the papers under the system, support & services package for REEVI.
Round 2
Reviewer 1 Report
All comments incorporated.
minor editing is still required. kindly check thoroughly before publishing.
Author Response
Reviewer 1
All comments incorporated.
Response – Thank you for accepting our modifications.
Reviewer 3 Report
1- As I mentioned before the terms "Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure" should be corrected because it doens not meaningful. Also in title.
Ok since you have used a lot REEVI you can keep it but as follow:
Renewable Energy based Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI)
Add this "based" in title of paper and the first apperance of term.
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REEVCSs - Renewable energy based electric vehicle charging stations
REEVI - Renewable energy based electric vehicle infrastructure
REHVI - Renewable energy based hybrid vehicle infrastructure
REHVI - Renewable energy based hybrid vehicle infrastructure
2- Figure 6 caption, Methodology is not good, something like research algorithm.
3-Quality of Figure 15 should be improved.
4-In the motivtion part, if there is any other related review paper in the literatur, they should be mentioned.
Author Response
Reviewer 2
Comment: As I mentioned before the terms "Renewable Energy Electric Vehicle Infrastructure" should be corrected because it doens not meaningful. Also in title.
Ok since you have used a lot REEVI you can keep it but as follow:
Renewable Energy based Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (REEVI)
Add this "based" in title of paper and the first apperance of term.
REEVCSs - Renewable energy based electric vehicle charging stations
REEVI - Renewable energy based electric vehicle infrastructure
REHVI - Renewable energy based hybrid vehicle infrastructure
Response: Thankyou for this suggestion. Authors have made the necessary amendments to the manuscript. All the abbreviations have been modified as suggested.
2- Figure 6 caption, Methodology is not good, something like research algorithm.
Response: Authors have changed the figure caption as, “Sorting and arrangement process of articles along a three-tier hierarchy”
3-Quality of Figure 15 should be improved.
Response: Thank you for pointing out the poor visibility of the figure. Figure-15 quality has been improved.
4-In the motivation part, if there is any other related review paper in the literature, they should be mentioned.
Response: All the relevant papers to form the motivation for the presented manuscript have been cited.
Round 3
Reviewer 3 Report
Now the paper is acceptable for publication.
