Determinants of Alternative Fuel Vehicle Choice in the Continental United States

Abstract

This paper describes the ongoing investigation into the determinants of alternative fiel vehicle choice. A stated preference vehicle choice sumey was conducted for the 47 of continental" U.S. states, excluding California. The national survey is based OL and is an extension o~previous studies on alternative fuel vehicle choice for the State of CaMornia conducted by.the University of California's Jnstitute of Transportation Studies (UC ITS). Researchers at UC ITS have used the stated-preference national survey to produce a series of estimates for new vehicle choice models. Three of these models are presented in this paper. The first two of the models were estimated using ordy the data from the national survey. The third model presented in this paper pools iniiormation from the national and California surveys to estimate a true mtional model for new vehicle choice.

Private household demand for vehicles on alternative fuels and drive trains: a review

“…Especially attitudinal surveys are often used in a first phase to develop the survey instrument or to obtain in-depth information about the consumers' attitudes on environmental issues. Second, research from the 80s and 90s mainly focused on the potential demand for battery EVs [13,14,24,27,38,39,54,55,79,90], while studies from the late 90s and 2000s rather address a mix of AFVs including EVs, LPG, CNG or methanol [21][22][23]33,34,42,81,87]. In line with technological developments, recent research also concentrates on HEVs [3,10,26,29,31,32,45,49,53,72], PHEVs [ 9 , 11], bi ofuels [51,68,69,80,89,91], hydrogen [2,66,74,76,86] and HFCVs [46,61,62,65].…”

“…These reviewed CM studies reveal that the most critical factors for the adoption of AFVs are price characteristics (e.g., purchase price, fuel costs) [3,26,29,33,72,79], followed by performance and convenience attributes (e.g., driving range, recharging times, fuel availability) [13,14,21,24,27,29,33,42,72,79]. Although people express a willingness to pay for reduced emission levels [21,23,87], environmental benefits are consistently found to be of minor importance compared to these attributes [26,27,34,72].…”

“…Europe is represented with 16 articles and Asia with 1 article. The bias towards California as the geographical focus of attention could be attributed to the heightened awareness of air pollution due to local conditions and press attention [37,87], its importance in global HEV sales (25 % of total US sales in 2006) [45], the low-emission vehicle regulations and state programs [39,87] and the highest count of Green Party registered voters throughout the US [53]. Only recently, European studies have gained in number, especially in the field of attitudinal surveys and preference valuation techniques.…”

Assessing economic impacts of clean diesel engines. Phase 1 report: U.S.- or foreign-produced clean diesel engines for selected light trucks

“…Households own a majority of the minivans and sport utility vehicles for personal travel. An ANL survey showed that minivan-owning households are less likely to adopt new technologies readily (Tompkins et al 1998). Also, the owners of minivans (which are classified as light trucks) treat them as larger station wagons.…”

Program analysis methodology Office of Transportation Technologies 2003 quality metrics final report.

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