Sustainability in Urban Transportation: Factors Impacted on Alternative Fuel Vehicle Usage
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Transportation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2022) | Viewed by 4176
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Interests: sustainability in transport, electric and alternative-fuel vehicles, connected and autonomous vehicles, mobility-as-a-service
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Dear Colleagues,
As part of the economic and policy response to the Great Recession of 2007-2008, alternative fueled vehicles (AFVs), which are largely electric vehicles (EVs), were pushed into the spotlight of surface transportation. Facilitated by state policies investing in research and development in EV, battery, and supply chain technology, increasing emissions and mileage standards, and incentives for consumers to purchase new EV offerings from manufacturers, there are now over 7.5 million EVs of some form driving on roads worldwide. Their rate of uptake has been quicker than conventional hybrids, in comparison to their date of deployment, and electric powertrains appear to be a central part of the future of transportation for years to come.
Alternative-fueled vehicles promise to address several key issues in the sustainability of transportation, including reliance on petroleum and emissions contributing to global climate change and local urban air quality. Much of the research on EVs and other AFVs relies on stated preference and examples from places and households that were already more likely to adopt them. While these are obviously essential contributions, EVs have now been commercially available for over a decade, and may have reached a large enough market penetration that research can begin to empirically explore some of their impacts.
This Special Issue calls for research on factors that have been impacted by electric vehicle usage. Key to the promise of AFVs was reductions in urban air pollution, reductions in gasoline consumption, but also increased electricity demand, and impacts on the energy grid. Have the impacts, both positive and negative, materialized? How and why do these vary by place? How has the general impression of AFVs changed over time, and who has adopted them? How have they changed over time? And what do these things mean for the sustainability of transportation? These are just some of a wealth of potential research questions suiting this call.
Over the last decade plus, we have seen some extraordinary developments in surface transportation, with alternative fueled vehicles, most specifically forms of electricity, taking hold as a powertrain option for consumers to consider in choosing a vehicle. This Special Issue calls for research looking at the impacts of the development and adoption of electric vehicles for transportation and sustainability. It seeks studies reporting on various aspects of factors impacted by the proliferation of electric (or any alternative-fueled) vehicles in passenger or commercial transportation, and in any sector related to transportation.
Dr. Bradley W. Lane
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- electric vehicles
- sustainability
- energy use
- impacts
- adoption
- travel behavior
- mode choice
- alternative fuels
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