Purdue University: Making electric vehicle investments more equitable
Over the next five years, the U.S. government will invest approximately $7.5 billion to expand access to electric vehicle chargers across the country to support climate resilience and improve air quality. But have you ever wondered where electric vehicle chargers are needed most?
Even as many rural counties see an uptick in electric vehicle miles traveled, a limited number of public charging options are available. A team of researchers at Purdue University’s Joint Transportation Research Program (JTRP) investigated which rural areas would be the best candidates for electric vehicle chargers. The JTRP team is no stranger to answering big transportation questions, and their prior research includes the improvement of road safety and traffic signal systems using connected and autonomous vehicle data.
To start, the researchers leveraged Google Cloud’s BigQuery and BigQuery GISbecause of their support for public datasets and geospatial analytics . With these tools, JTRP Principal Research...
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