Toward an equitable transportation electrification plan: Measuring public electric vehicle charging station access disparities in Austin, Texas.

ABSTRACT: The deployment of public electric vehicle charging stations (EVCS) is a critical component of transportation electrification. Recent studies have highlighted growing concerns about disparities in accessibility to public chargers between different demographic groups. This research expands ongoing equity concerns by contextualizing existing transportation equity discourse and analyzing public charger access disparities in Austin, Texas. Using threshold equity toolkits, we investigated public EVCS access disparity across different races and income groups. We conducted a generalized additive model regression to measure and visualize the effects of possible determinants on public EVCS access. The analysis results revealed that a public EVCS access disparity exists in Austin, with most chargers

SUBMITTER: Jiao J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11376518 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature