Richard, René2023-09-202023-09-202021-11Thesis 10981https://unbscholar.lib.unb.ca/handle/1882/37433Transport electrification introduces new opportunities in supporting sustainable mobility. Fostering Electric Vehicle (EV) adoption integrates vehicle range and infrastructure deployment concerns. An understanding of EV charging patterns is crucial for optimizing charging infrastructure placement and managing costs. Clustering EV charging events has been useful for ensuring service consistency and increasing EV adoption. However, clustering presents challenges for practitioners when first selecting the appropriate hyperparameter combination for an algorithm and later when assessing the quality of clustering results. Ground truth information is usually not available for practitioners to validate the discovered patterns. As a result, it is harder to judge the effectiveness of different modelling decisions since there is no objective way to compare them. This work proposes a clustering process that allows for the creation of relative rankings of similar clustering results. The overall goal is to support users by allowing them to compare a clustering result of interest against other similar groupings over multiple temporal granularities. The efficacy of this analytical process is demonstrated with a case study using real-world EV charging event data from charging station operators in New Brunswick.xi, 100electronicenhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Engineering models.Battery charging stations (Electric vehicles)--New Brunswick.Infrastructure (Economics)--New Brunswick--Management.New Brunswick.master thesisChurch, IanWachowicz, Monica(OCoLC)1418997399Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering