APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING STRATEGIES FOR CHARGING VEHICLES

An apparatus, a method, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for providing strategies for charging vehicles is provided. For example, the apparatus obtains, using a map database, traffic congestion information on a road segment, predicts a traffic congestion status on the road segment based on the traffic congestion information, generates an objective function based on the traffic congestion status, computes a solution of the objective function using an integer programming or a linear programming, generates a recommendation based on the solution, and outputs the recommendation.