TY - JOUR
T1 - How early hydrogen fuel cell vehicle adopters geographically evaluate a network of refueling stations in California
AU - Kelley, Scott
AU - Krafft, Aimee
AU - Kuby, Michael
AU - Lopez, Oscar
AU - Stotts, Rhian
AU - Liu, Jingteng
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation , Geography and Spatial Sciences Division, grant number 1660514 . The authors would like to thank Barbara Trapido-Lurie, Senior Research Professional in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University for her assistance in graphics development.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, Geography and Spatial Sciences Division, grant number 1660514. The authors would like to thank Barbara Trapido-Lurie, Senior Research Professional in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University for her assistance in graphics development.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - After a few years of initial sales, there is an opportunity to analyze how early hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) adopters evaluated the spatial arrangement of a network of stations prior to adoption. Since strategies differ on how best to arrange initial stations in a region to facilitate adoption, understanding how they did so informs future station planning methods. We distributed a web-based survey to 129 FCV adopters throughout California in 2019, asking them where they lived and traveled at the time of adoption, up to five stations they planned to use, and subjective reasons for listing those stations. We estimated shortest travel times to respondents' homes and other frequent locations, and deviations from frequently traveled routes. We compared differences in subjective and objective convenience for primary, secondary, and lower-ranked stations, and tabulated the different combinations of stations that satisfied adopters' various geographic criteria. Over 80% planned to rely on a portfolio of multiple stations subjectively convenient to key activity locations, and nearly 25% who provided subjective geographic criteria for listing stations did not include “near home” as their top reason for their primary or secondary station. Estimated travel times to stations subjectively considered “near” home, work, and other location types exhibit variability, but consistently decay beyond 90 min. Primary stations are subjectively and objectively more convenient to home and work than lower-ranked stations, and more associated with subjective convenience to home and objective convenience to work than secondary stations. Other destination types align with lower-ranked stations.
AB - After a few years of initial sales, there is an opportunity to analyze how early hydrogen fuel cell vehicle (FCV) adopters evaluated the spatial arrangement of a network of stations prior to adoption. Since strategies differ on how best to arrange initial stations in a region to facilitate adoption, understanding how they did so informs future station planning methods. We distributed a web-based survey to 129 FCV adopters throughout California in 2019, asking them where they lived and traveled at the time of adoption, up to five stations they planned to use, and subjective reasons for listing those stations. We estimated shortest travel times to respondents' homes and other frequent locations, and deviations from frequently traveled routes. We compared differences in subjective and objective convenience for primary, secondary, and lower-ranked stations, and tabulated the different combinations of stations that satisfied adopters' various geographic criteria. Over 80% planned to rely on a portfolio of multiple stations subjectively convenient to key activity locations, and nearly 25% who provided subjective geographic criteria for listing stations did not include “near home” as their top reason for their primary or secondary station. Estimated travel times to stations subjectively considered “near” home, work, and other location types exhibit variability, but consistently decay beyond 90 min. Primary stations are subjectively and objectively more convenient to home and work than lower-ranked stations, and more associated with subjective convenience to home and objective convenience to work than secondary stations. Other destination types align with lower-ranked stations.
KW - Fuel cell vehicle
KW - GIS
KW - Hydrogen
KW - Multinomial logistic regression
KW - Survey
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102897
DO - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2020.102897
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093664266
SN - 0966-6923
VL - 89
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
M1 - 102897
ER -