Browsing by Subject "electric vehicles"

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    An Electric Solution: Research and Recommendations for Washington County’s EV Infrastructure
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Freier, Ben
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between Washington County and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (https://rcp.umn.edu/). The goal of this project was to research policies and best practices related to electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure to support future transportation planning in Washington County. Washington County project lead Sara Allen collaborated with a graduate student enrolled in PA 8991 to research case studies of EV adoption in other counties and propose recommendations for future investments. A final student report and PowerPoint presentation slides from the project are available.
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    Electric Vehicle Car-Share Feasibility Study
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2023) Cade, Jackson; Lyng, Lexie; Munene, Nelima Sitati; Stewart, Gustave
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. Edina project lead Grace Hancock collaborated with a team of graduate students enrolled in a Humphrey School capstone course, taught by Lyssa Leitner, to review literature and case studies of electric car-sharing services in peer suburbs in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country, interview stakeholders and residents through focus group engagement, assess how an EV car-sharing program would meet Edina's greenhouse gas emission reduction and equity goals, and recommend action steps for implementing such a system in Edina. The students’ final report and PowerPoint presentation are available.
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    Essays on the Market Impacts of Regulatory Regimes
    (2018-05) Shapiro, Matthew
    This dissertation contains three essays, which focus on markets featuring heavy government intervention. The first two study the effects of Uber’s entry into the taxi industry of New York City. The final essay, coauthored with Boyoung Seo, studies intervention in the growing market for electric vehicles in California. In the first chapter I quantify the magnitude and distribution of the welfare offered by Uber’s cab-to-customer matching technology. I combine publicly available transportation data with data scraped from Uber and traffic cameras in New York City to estimate a model of demand for transportation services and imbed it in a spatial equilibrium framework in which Uber and taxis compete. Uber’s matching advantage depends on the density of the market. In consumer welfare terms, the introduction of Uber added only $0.10 per ride in the densest parts of New York but over $1.00 in the least dense. These results imply Uber’s appeal in its densest market has depended on advantages independent from its matching technology, including its lower regulatory burden. In the second chapter I document the potential of digitization to reduce statistical discrimination. First, I find that the search behavior of hail taxis, even controlling for profitability, highlights statistical discrimination against certain consumers. Second, Uber has mitigated the negative externalities in the cab markets among these consumers. A reasonable hypothesis is that Uber’s matching technology permits contracts without the cost of undirected searching in previously avoided areas of the city. In the final chapter, my coauthor and I assess the efficacy of vehicle subsidy programs and investment in a charging station network on demand for electric vehicles. In contrast to previous literature, we consider heterogeneity in tastes for electric vehicles and price elasticities across demographics, as well as the heterogenous marginal benefits of charging stations, and demonstrate the importance of both dimensions in correctly identifying the impact of subsidies and charging stations on demand. We use zip code-level data on vehicle purchases in California to estimate a random coefficient discrete choice model of automobile demand capable of proposing more efficient incentive structures.
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    Feasibility of an Electric Car-Sharing Service in a Suburban Environment: Team Best Practices
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Bransky, Jacob; Cade, Jackson; Margolis, Jacob; Ziegler, Spencer
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. Edina project lead Grace Hancock collaborated with a team of graduate students enrolled in Professor Frank Douma’s course, PA 5232/CEGE 5212: Transportation Planning, Policy, and Deployment, to review literature and case studies of electric car-sharing services in peer suburbs in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country and recommend best practices for implementing such a system in Edina. The students’ final report and PowerPoint presentation are available.
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    Feasibility of Electric Car Sharing in a Suburban Environment: A Survey of Edina Residents
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Masson, George; Henke-Fiedler, Brandon
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). The City of Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. A team of graduate RCP Scholars collaborated with Edina project lead Grace Hancock to develop and administer an online resident survey to understand whether, how, and by whom an electric car-sharing service might be used in a suburban environment such as Edina. The students’ final report is available.
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    Feasibility of Electric Car Sharing in a Suburban Environment: Team Connectivity
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Rosenblad, Ben; Anago, Christian; Lallak, Chandler; Harpell, Ian
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. Edina project lead Grace Hancock collaborated with a team of graduate students enrolled in Professor Frank Douma’s course, PA 5232/CEGE 5212: Transportation Planning, Policy, and Deployment, to review literature, best practices, and case studies of electric car-sharing services in peer suburbs in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country and make recommendations for how an EV car-sharing service could supplement and connect to existing transportation networks and other transit options in Edina to improve transportation mobility, access, and connectivity. The students’ final report and PowerPoint presentation are available.
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    Feasibility of Electric Car-Sharing in a Suburban Environment: Team Equity
    (Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2022) Wuebker, Jessica; Maktar, Ayub; Denten, Kaitlyn; Tabura, AJ
    This project was completed as part of a partnership between the City of Edina and the University of Minnesota’s Resilient Communities Project (http://www.rcp.umn.edu). Edina is committed to providing clean, abundant, equitable, and accessible transportation options to all who live, work, and travel through the community. Edina’s newly passed Climate Action Plan includes goals to reduce community-wide vehicle miles traveled by 7% by 2030, and increase battery electric vehicle utilization to 25% of community-wide rolling stock. The City is also committed to prioritizing low-income household transportation opportunities. Edina project lead Grace Hancock collaborated with a team of graduate students enrolled in Professor Frank Douma’s course, PA 5232/CEGE 5212: Transportation Planning, Policy, and Deployment, to review literature, best practices, and case studies of electric car-sharing services in peer suburbs in Minnesota and elsewhere around the country with respect to ensuring equitable access. The students’ final report and PowerPoint presentation are available.