Strategies to Increase Zero Carbon Vehicles for Underserved and Disadvantaged Communities

The purpose of this project is to develop strategies to increase market penetration of low and zero carbon transport options for underserved and disadvantaged communities. The tasks in this project include a first conceptual task on developing an enhanced conceptual framework based on project “Household Demand for Clean Vehicles in California: Individual Attitudes, Current Car Ownership, and Future Car Ownership” and additional literature review customized to underserved and disadvantaged communities. The second task will create a nationwide trend analysis of ZEV market penetration using multiple years of the National Household Travel Survey data to serve as comparison for a California specific analysis. The third task will focus on California and extract in depth information with the tool Structural Equations Models based on specification guidance from past projects but focusing on underserved population segments based using cluster analysis on the key barriers to ZEV vehicle ownership. The fourth task will estimate willingness to pay for a variety of vehicle characteristics based on discrete choice experiments (also known as stated preference) data in the California Energy Commission’s surveys in the most recent years and again using latent cluster analysis. The fifth and last task is the synthesis of all the tasks and a description of strategies to combine low and zero carbon transport options with other decarbonization actions such as photovoltaic electric energy generating panels and remote work

• Record URL:
  https://metrans.org/research/strategies-to-increase-zero-carbon-vehicles-for-underserved-and-disadvantaged-communities

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Programmed
• Funding: $65000
• 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:

  Goulias, Kostas

• Start Date: 20240815
• Expected Completion Date: 20250814
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cluster analysis; Data analysis; Structural equation modeling; Travel surveys; Underserved communities; Zero emission vehicles
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01928985
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Pacific Southwest Region University Transportation Center
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552348309
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 27 2024 6:09PM