Lessons from last mile electrification in Colombia: Examining the policy framework and outcomes for sustainability

Garces, Estefany; Tomei, Julia; Franco, Carlos; Dyner, Isaac

doi:10.1016/j.erss.2021.102156

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“…The use of this methodology for the quantification and establishment of a walkability index allows for an accurate evaluation of sustainable mobility within private vehicleoriented cities, with lower public transportation access and usage. Our contribution adds to the last mile approach for intermodal mobility (Chen et al, 2021;Garces et al, 2021). This methodology will benefit from live weather and air quality data for more accurate, time-series data on walkability scores.…”

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“…There are also other approaches that base their evaluations on extended questionnaires and individual judgments by different social groups, for example, tourists (Stockton et al, 2016;Bassiri et al, 2021). The issue of last mile performance evaluation has found in two papers (Chen et al, 2021;Garces et al, 2021) lie in the logic of the current case study review since in both the cases there is an attempt to provide planning interventions with measurable assessment in order to improve transit connectivity and eliminate mobility inequality across neighborhoods.…”

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The establishment of an intermodal walkability index for use in car oriented urban environments: The case of Nicosia

Mouzas

Ioannou

Fokaides

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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Sustainable mobility has been considered key in the pursuit of sustainable development in urban environments. During the last decades, a lot of innovative initiatives have been proposed and examined, most of them were site-specific and highly relevant to the local context. This case study review focuses on Nicosia, a car oriented, medium sized city, and attempts to define an intermodal walkability index for the city center. In a city like Nicosia where more than 90% of the daily trips are done completely by car, encouraging intermodal mobility with walking as part of the trip is an important first step to sustainable mobility. The aim of the paper is to present a model based upon the most impactful sustainability indicators when referring to pedestrian mobility, and therefore will create an intermodal walkability index for grading the walkability of an urban environment, in our case a particular, car-oriented one. The index was developed by using the latest version of pyQGIS, due to the fact that the algorithms that are being used in the calculation of this index are already part of the geospatial analysis toolbox contained within QGIS. The paper uses as a case study the municipality of Nicosia in Cyprus where it was proven that pedestrian transportation can be graded in terms of walkability from the private car drop point. The study has also discovered that the use of primary electricity generation and fossil fuels for transport can be reduced if problematic areas that have a low or negative sustainability score are managed in ways that will increase the score.

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The establishment of an intermodal walkability index for use in car oriented urban environments: The case of Nicosia

Mouzas

Ioannou

Fokaides

2022

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…This chimes with the empirical research of Yuliani (2017) who finds that "Indonesia is an example of a country where Feed-in Tariff policy, which is considered quite successful in developed countries, is duplicated without careful considerations of the existing sociopolitical conditions". Policymakers would, therefore, risk neglecting their countries' potential advantages and disadvantages, and ability to guarantee energy access and justice (Garces et al, 2021). From an energy innovation perspective, it risks positioning activities perceived to be innovative as exogenous to LMICs, given that lower income countries track behind higher income…”

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Bridging the divide in energy policy research: Empirical evidence from global collaborative networks

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“…The study carried out in (Garces, et al, 2021) shows the evaluation of policies for the electrification of NIZ in southwestern Colombia and in (Cherni et al, 2007) an analytical tool called Sustainable Rural Energy Decision Support System is presented, which aims to that of maximizing the five main criteria that represent a locality (physical, financial, natural, social and human), and whose variations depend mainly on the provision of electrical energy and other complementary productive and social projects.…”

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Implementation of the Hierarchical Analytical Process in the Selection of the Best Source of Renewable Energy in the Colombian Caribbean Region

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Álvarez

Castillo

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In this study, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology is implemented to provide decision criteria in the selection, planning, and development of electric power generation projects from renewable energy sources in the Caribbean region of Colombia. Six sources of renewable energy; biomass combustion; anaerobic digestion of biomass; biogas landfills; waste incineration; Photovoltaic energy and solar thermal radiation were considered in this study due to their energy potential in rural areas and areas not interconnected to the national electricity system. To determine the order of priority in the development of energy conversion technologies, a questionnaire was developed and sent to a group of experts. Given the need to generate electricity sustainably, the information was analyzed under four main criteria: technical, environmental, social, and economic. Sixteen additional sub-criteria were selected based on a literature review. In general, the economic criterion is the most relevant in the area due to the high investment and operating costs of electricity generation. The social criterion highlights the opportunity to create new jobs, while the environmental criterion highlights the component of substitution of renewable energy, a key aspect in the diversification of the energy matrix, which is part of the country's political agenda. Regarding the technological component, photovoltaic energy seems the most favorable due to its low environmental impact and the considerable reduction in prices experienced by the solar panel market in recent years.

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Lessons from last mile electrification in Colombia: Examining the policy framework and outcomes for sustainability

Cited by 23 publications

References 32 publications

The establishment of an intermodal walkability index for use in car oriented urban environments: The case of Nicosia

The establishment of an intermodal walkability index for use in car oriented urban environments: The case of Nicosia

Bridging the divide in energy policy research: Empirical evidence from global collaborative networks

Implementation of the Hierarchical Analytical Process in the Selection of the Best Source of Renewable Energy in the Colombian Caribbean Region

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