Systematic Review of Integrated Sustainable Transportation Models for Electric Passenger Vehicle Diffusion

Abstract

Ensuring energy security, stopping climate change, and improving urban air quality are the three main challenges of this century that are being addressed by governments globally. The transportation sector contributes significantly to these issues. Sustainable transport involves the consideration of three dimensions—economic development, environmental preservation, and social development—and one of its aspects is the focus on the transition towards electric vehicles. The sustainable transportation is a complex system with multiple relationships and feedback between their elements. Understanding this complexity in an integrated and holistic manner is a challenge that must be addressed. To obtain insight into this complexity, we perform a systematic review of studies in which the demand and supply components of the passenger transportation sector were modelled in an integrated manner along with the dimensions of sustainability. All the reviewed previous studies had taken into consideration both the economic and environmental dimensions; however, only a few had also considered social development. The holistic and systematic integration of the dimensions of sustainability along with their relationships and feedback would facilitate a better understanding of the transportation sector and promote the development of better policies for improving the diffusion of passenger electric vehicles.

Electric Car Purchase Price as a Factor Determining Consumers’ Choice and their Views on Incentives in Europe

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“…The use of disaggregate (multinomial (MNL) and nested MNL (NMNL)) models in EV market diffusion studies was identified by Gnann et al [20]. In their review of eleven models, Lopez-Arboleda et al [21] found that DCMs, especially MNL, were generally used to represent consumer purchases of electric passenger vehicles. According to these authors, Greene et al [22] and Kieckhäfer et al [23] applied NMNL.…”

Electric Vehicle Sales Catastrophe Averted (?)

“…An interesting manuscript "The effect of perceived risk on the purchase intention of electric vehicles: an extension to the technology acceptance model" (Thilina, 2019) seeks to analyze significant market penetration for the sale of electric vehicles accompanied by the analysis (Mo, 2018) of life-cycle cost of ownership including congestion and environmental impacts (Tu, 2019), (Rajeev, et al, 2019), (Hao, 2017), (Philipsen, et al, 2019), (Lopez-Arboleda, et al, 2019), (Almeida, et al, 2019). Considerable emphasis have been placed on improvements in vehicle charging (Wolbertus, et al, 2019) amongst many other underlying technological areas seeking to improve the value proposition to potential buyers (Jager, et al, 2019), , , (Minnerup, et al, 2019), (Muller, 2019) and also make recommendations in both technology (Zha, et al, 2019), , (Zha, et al, 2019), , (Jiyan, et al, 2019), (Pier, et al, 2019), (Agaton, et al, 2019), , (Watanabe, et al, 2019), (Kusaka, et al, 2019), (Zhang, W., et al, 2019), , (Mayer, et al, 2019), (Ricciardi, et al, 2019), , (Yu, Z., et al, 2019), (Senda, et al, 2019), (Marquez-Fernandez, et al, 2019), (Wu, D., et al, 2019), (Wang, H., et al, 2019), (Obayashi, et al, 2019), (Gong, et al, 2019), (Vermeulen, et al, 2019), (Jia, J., et al, 2019), (Li, Q., et al, 2019) and policy incentives (Zhang, X., et al, 2019), (Ortar, et al, 2019), culminating in charging strategies to influence the obvious trade-off between gasoline prices and charging availability , (Wolbertus, et al, 2019),…”

Sustainable Urban Transportation Criteria and Measurement—A Systematic Literature Review

“…This is especially necessary because Germans' travel behavior has become less sustainable during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: 20% of people indicate that they stopped using public transportation, and 17% plan to use a private car more frequently after the pandemic. The need for criteria and indicators to measure sustainability is evident through countless existing initiatives [18][19][20], such as the Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) [21] or the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) [22].…”