Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network

Ma, Jie; Zhu, Yu; Chen, Dawei; Zhang, Chenhao; Song, Maocan; Zhang, Honggang; Chen, Jingxu; Zhang, Kai

doi:10.3390/systems11030149

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Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network

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Jie Ma

,

Yu Zhu

,

Dawei Chen

^*,

Chenhao Zhang

,

Maocan Song

,

Honggang Zhang

,

Jingxu Chen

and

Kai Zhang

School of Transportation, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China

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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.

Systems 2023, 11(3), 149; https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030149

Submission received: 16 February 2023 / Revised: 5 March 2023 / Accepted: 10 March 2023 / Published: 13 March 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Frontiers in Complex Network Theory and Its Applications)

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Electric vehicles (EVs) are one of the most promising applications that are reshaping the future urban mobility market and benefitting the urban environment. Analyzing the adoption of EVs helps both vehicle sales market management and urban transportation-related environmental cost estimation. Previous studies have shown that EV adoption is mostly affected by the economic environment and users’ psychological factors; however, both factors vary among specific urban transportation networks. This paper thus proposes network-related vehicle operating cost functions and a logit-based choice model, which considers both the economic environment and users’ psychological factors at a network level. The model can thus estimate the vehicle adoption for specific networks. Numerical experiments and sensitivity analyses were conducted to illustrate the proposed method and provide practical insights in estimating EV adoption, respectively. The results suggest that EV adoption greatly varies among different cities.

Keywords: electric vehicle adoption; vehicle ownership; operating cost; logit choice model; urban transportation network

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Ma, J.; Zhu, Y.; Chen, D.; Zhang, C.; Song, M.; Zhang, H.; Chen, J.; Zhang, K. Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network. Systems 2023, 11, 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030149

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Ma J, Zhu Y, Chen D, Zhang C, Song M, Zhang H, Chen J, Zhang K. Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network. Systems. 2023; 11(3):149. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030149

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Ma, Jie, Yu Zhu, Dawei Chen, Chenhao Zhang, Maocan Song, Honggang Zhang, Jingxu Chen, and Kai Zhang. 2023. "Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network" Systems 11, no. 3: 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030149

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Ma, J., Zhu, Y., Chen, D., Zhang, C., Song, M., Zhang, H., Chen, J., & Zhang, K. (2023). Analysis of Urban Electric Vehicle Adoption Based on Operating Costs in Urban Transportation Network. Systems, 11(3), 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/systems11030149

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