relation: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3951/
title: Shaping a sustainable shift; how planners and policymakers could influence the adoption and efficient integration of electric vehicles into cities
creator: Noordveld, Milan
description: Amidst growing concerns about emissions and fuel prices, sustainable mobility has become a highly relevant policy goal within governments around the world. One approach towards this end is the promotion of EV adoption. By introducing policy that positively affects the willingness of owners of internal combustion engine vehicles to purchase EVs, emissions can be minimized. Besides the inherent financial background of such a shift, EV adoption also relates to spatial policy. Although the role of spatial planners and spatial policymakers within the process of EV adoption has been discussed in previous research, the linkage between said process and actors has often been implicit. Moreover, a clear overview of relevant spatial policy steps is lacking within the existing body of EV research. The aim of this study is to provide such an overview, which would not just add to literature, but could also serve as an inspiration for policy in practice. In addition, an emphasis on a distinction between adoption and integration provides a renewed perspective. To find relevant policy recommendations, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted, based on 26 journal articles. In order to maximize objectivity this study was partly constructed around the sample itself, by using a bottom-up categorization approach. Although previous literature on EV adoption often does not include the process of integration in the same way it is used here, this process this appeared to be a better fit for those policy recommendations that did not fully align with adoption. By differentiating between adoption and integration, policy steps could thus be categorized with more precision. The SLR showed a diversity of policy recommendations, such as grid integration or policy against induced traffic, although charging infrastructure was a dominant theme nonetheless. Range anxiety proved to be a recurring theme within the backgrounds of individual policy recommendations. The main research output consists of a policy model which includes a stepwise funneling of policy recommendations, as established based in the SLR, into an adoption, integration and a shared category.
date: 2022
type: Thesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3951/1/Thesis%20final%20version%20-%20EV%20adoption%20and%20integration%20-%20Milan%20Noordveld%20-2022.pdf
identifier:   Noordveld, Milan  (2022) Shaping a sustainable shift; how planners and policymakers could influence the adoption and efficient integration of electric vehicles into cities.  Master thesis.