Introduction
While electric vehicles (EVs) offer a promising solution for decarbonizing transportation, their integration necessitates additional power generation and charging infrastructure without addressing issues like traffic congestion or vehicular injuries.
To alleviate the urgent need for rapid development of charging infrastructure and support a high EV adoption rate, alternative mobility options must be considered. Emerging research focuses on diversified opportunities for communities to reduce personal vehicle use and associated emissions. These solutions must consider climate, geography, social and economic contexts, and local values, recognizing that climate solutions are highly heterogeneous.
Project Status
The project team is developing and validating several advanced tools to create an integrated modeling system. This system comprises an agent-based traffic model, a bike-sharing demand and distance forecasting model, an urban transportation emission and energy consumption model, a life cycle model, and an environmental co-impact model. These models will assess scenarios for utilizing bike-sharing in informed policy-making and explore government incentives to promote bike-sharing as a viable pathway for decarbonizing urban mobility. Validation is ongoing using environmental data and bike-sharing data provided by project partner Mobi by Rogers.
By the end of 2024, the integrated modeling system is expected to be fully operational, verified, and calibrated. In 2025, it will be used to simulate mode change and various other scenarios.
The project data flow:
