SEES Fellows: Impacts of Land Use Patterns and Public Transit Availability on the Economic and Environmental Sustainability of Electric Vehicles

在NSF科学，工程和教育可持续发展研究员（SEES研究员计划）的这个奖项中，来自密歇根梅隆大学的Elizabeth Traut博士将调查土地使用模式和公共交通可用性对插电式和混合动力电动汽车（xEV）的采用，使用和经济/环境可持续性的影响。 该奖项得到了以下机构的支持：工程理事会、社会、行为和经济科学理事会以及综合和国际活动办公室。拟议的工作将调查在当前和未来的电网混合下，电动汽车（xEV）和充电基础设施的哪些场景在各个地区最具环境和经济可持续性。将考虑的一些因素包括：车辆设计（特别是全电动范围），采用（成本因素，补贴），驾驶模式（充电之间的距离，城市与高速公路驾驶），充电机会（车辆停放的时间，地点和时间）以及充电基础设施，这些因素反过来又受到土地使用模式和公共交通可用性等区域因素的影响。 这项研究将比较为芝加哥和苏格兰格拉斯哥制定的方案。 这项工作中提出的研究的目的是开发基于科学和工程的框架，以指导xEV和充电基础设施区域系统的政策决策。特劳特博士将与合作者克里斯·亨德里克森教授的土木和环境工程系在麦基-梅隆大学以及教授皮尤希米塔Thakuriah，运输在格拉斯哥大学Halcrow椅子。该项目是由美国国家科学基金会科学，工程和教育的可持续发展研究员支持（SEES研究员）计划，其目标是帮助实现所需的发现，为导致环境，能源和社会可持续性的行动提供信息，同时创造必要的劳动力来应对这些挑战。在SEES研究员的支持下，该项目将使一个有前途的早期职业研究人员能够在与可持续发展相关的独立研究生涯中建立自己的地位。

In this Award from the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows Program) Dr. Elizabeth Traut from Carnegie-Mellon University will investigate the impacts of land use patterns and public transit availability on the adoption, use and economic/environmental sustainability of plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles (xEVs). This award has support from: the Directorate for Engineering, the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences and the Office of Integrative and International Activities.The proposed work will investigate what scenarios of electric vehicles (xEVs) and charging infrastructure are most environmentally and economically sustainable in various regions, under both current and future electric grid mixes. Some of the factors that will be considered include: vehicle design (especially all-electric range), adoption (cost factors, subsidies), driving patterns (distance between charges, city vs. highway driving), chargingopportunities (when, where, and how long vehicles are parked), and charging infrastructure, which are in turn affected by regional factors such as land use patterns and public transit availability. The research will compare scenarios developed for Chicago and Glasgow, Scotland. The aim of studies like that proposed in this work is to develop science- and engineering-based frameworks to guide policy decisions for regional systems of xEVs and charging infrastructure. Dr. Traut will be working with collaborators Prof. Chris Hendrickson of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie-Mellon University as well as Prof. Piyushimita Thakuriah, Halcrow Chair of Transport at the University of Glasgow.This project is supported under the NSF Science, Engineering and Education for Sustainability Fellows (SEES Fellows) program, with the goal of helping to enable discoveries needed to inform actions that lead to environmental, energy and societal sustainability while creating the necessary workforce to address these challenges. With SEES Fellows support, this project will enable a promising early career researcher to establish themselves in an independent research career related to sustainability.