Charging into the future: Using electric vehicle (EV) ownership patterns to identify suitable locations for deploying EV charging stations in Massachusetts.
Shrestha, Rajat.
2020
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Thesis (M.S.)--Tufts University, 2020.
Submitted to the Dept. of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.
Advisor: Sumeeta Srinivasan.
Committee: Ujjayant Chakravorty.
Keywords: Environmental economics, and Urban planning.
Different governments and policymakers have described promoting the use of electric vehicles (EVs) as an important policy option ... read morefor reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions resulting from traditional oil-powered vehicles. While EVs are expected to become more affordable in the future, previous studies have asserted that increasing the availability of public EV charging stations at convenient locations will be vital for promoting EV ownership and supporting EV owners. This thesis examines EV ownership patterns in Massachusetts by analyzing where EV owners are located in the state and assessing the typical characteristics of neighborhoods with EV owners. Additionally, using existing EV ownership patterns, and other socioeconomic and spatial site suitability criteria, this thesis also identifies suitable locations for deploying public EV charging stations in areas within the Metropolitan Area Planning Commission (MAPC) region. Logistic regression results suggest that EV ownership in Massachusetts is currently more likely to be in wealthier, educated, and suburban areas of the MAPC region. Multiple locations along major interstate highways and a variety of neighborhoods in the MAPC region are good candidates for the deployment of EV charging stations in the future, based on the results from the GIS based suitability analysis that was conducted for this thesis. The results suggest that investigating the change in EV ownership patterns as EVs become cheaper and conducting further assessments of the suitable locations identified here will be important for increasing the availability of charging facilities and supporting EV ownership in the region.read less - ID:
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