Systematic Review of Integrated Sustainable Transportation Models for Electric Passenger Vehicle Diffusion

Esteban Lopez-Arboleda, Alfonso T. Sarmiento and Laura M. Cardenas
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Esteban Lopez-Arboleda: Grupo de investigación en Sistemas Logísticos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de La Sabana, Campus del Puente del Común, Km. 7, Autopista Norte de Bogotá, 250001 Chía, Colombia
Alfonso T. Sarmiento: Grupo de investigación en Sistemas Logísticos, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de La Sabana, Campus del Puente del Común, Km. 7, Autopista Norte de Bogotá, 250001 Chía, Colombia
Laura M. Cardenas: Departamento de Ingeniería Industrial, Universidad de Antioquia, Calle 70 No. 52-21, 050010 Medellín, Colombia

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 9, 1-19

Abstract: Ensuring energy security, stopping climate change, and improving urban air quality are the three main challenges of this century that are being addressed by governments globally. The transportation sector contributes significantly to these issues. Sustainable transport involves the consideration of three dimensions—economic development, environmental preservation, and social development—and one of its aspects is the focus on the transition towards electric vehicles. The sustainable transportation is a complex system with multiple relationships and feedback between their elements. Understanding this complexity in an integrated and holistic manner is a challenge that must be addressed. To obtain insight into this complexity, we perform a systematic review of studies in which the demand and supply components of the passenger transportation sector were modelled in an integrated manner along with the dimensions of sustainability. All the reviewed previous studies had taken into consideration both the economic and environmental dimensions; however, only a few had also considered social development. The holistic and systematic integration of the dimensions of sustainability along with their relationships and feedback would facilitate a better understanding of the transportation sector and promote the development of better policies for improving the diffusion of passenger electric vehicles.

Keywords: sustainable transportation; integrated framework; systematic approach; electric vehicle; systematic literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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