Lou, J., Shen, X., Niemeier, D.A. et al. Income and racial disparity in household publicly available electric vehicle infrastructure accessibility. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Gain new insight into the response of air quality to Nr emission changes driven by short-term compared to long-term policies and to understand how PM2.5 and N composition are changing under the influence of anthropogenic activities and climate change

Case:

• US, households

Methodology:

• LOESS regression
• LASSO ML
• OLS

Data Source

• Household demographics: Data Axle
• EV infrastructure

Findings:

• In both urban and rural areas, as household income increases, access to the public charging stations also increases

• A mixed accessibility gap between low-moderate income and non-LMI households

Coding Reference:

• R and Python