Charging station investments’ impact on electric vehicle accessibility and adoption

Accessibility to daily destinations for electric and internal combustion engine vehicles is not fundamentally different except for one important dimension. Anxiety range, the fear of running out of battery power before reaching a charging station, significantly affects the ease with which people can access different destinations and, therefore, their willingness to buy or drive an electric vehicle (EV). This project focuses on how people might evaluate the charging infrastructure within the areas where they drive most often, the set of places they drive to routinely like workplaces and stores. The research team will create travel zones based on the observed patterns of driving established under a system where gas-powered cars dominate to assess the ability of EVs with different ranges to reach the same destinations. The team will then use these zones to analyze how different measures of charging station accessibility are associated with higher EV ownership and whether charging infrastructure buildup leads to faster EV adoption rates. Finally, the team will focus on residents of multi-unit dwellings, who have a greater need for charging stations near their homes, by creating a fine-grained measure of accessibility based on road network distance.

• Record URL:
  https://metrans.org/research/charging-station-investments-impact-on-electric-vehicle-accessibility-and-adoption

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Programmed
• Funding: $100000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552348309

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  METRANS Transportation Consortium

  University of Southern California
  Los Angeles, CA  United States 
• Project Managers:

  Hong, Jennifer

  Bruner, Britain

• Principal Investigators:

  Comandon, Andre

• Start Date: 20250101
• Expected Completion Date: 20260515
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Accessibility; Apartment buildings; Automobile ownership; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Investments; Vehicle range
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01928218
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552348309
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 22 2024 3:18PM