Electrifying Vehicle Transportation: Issues and Challenges for Local Planning and Policymaking
In the United States and around the world, electric powered vehicles (EVs) are increasingly substituting for vehicles powered by internal combustion engines. Vehicle electrification is accelerating across vehicle categories including light and medium-duty vehicle categories and in public transit and school buses. There is broad agreement that it is crucial to systematically develop the charging infrastructure in unison with EV deployment. Yet this is a highly complex challenge involving different charging modalities (e.g. for personal vehicles, fleet vehicles, buses), numerous institutional actors (auto makers, private firms, utilities, and all levels of government) and evolving charging technologies in the United States. An efficient and inclusive transition to EVs will require energetic and durable coordination, planning and policy development as well as deeper levels of community engagement. Serious economic, technical and informational barriers must be addressed. The needed buildout of the charging infrastructure will require considerable investment and intensive collaboration between public sector organizations and private sector actors. Electric utilities will be critical players in the build out of the charging infrastructure. Recent large scale federal investments and supports will accelerate the scale up of the charging infrastructure, but how the key local institutions come together to leverage these funds will strongly shape outcomes.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $ 54500
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747135
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Sponsor Organizations:
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590University Transportation Center Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590University Transportation Center Program
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Stearns, Amy
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Performing Organizations:
Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX United States 78712 -
Principal Investigators:
Oden, Michael
- Start Date: 20220901
- Expected Completion Date: 20230930
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Electric power supply; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Planning; Public private partnerships
- Geographic Terms: United States
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01938830
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions (CM2)
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747135
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Dec 5 2024 6:22PM