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Range anxiety is a major concern of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) users or potential users. Previous work has explored the influential factors of distance-related range anxiety. However, time-related range anxiety has rarely been explored. The time cost when charging or waiting to charge the BEVs can negatively impact BEV users' experience. As a preliminary attempt, this survey study investigated time-related anxiety by observing BEV users' charging decisions in scenarios when both battery level and time cost are of concern. We collected and analyzed responses from 217 BEV users in mainland China. The results revealed that time-related anxiety exists and could affect users' charging decisions. Further, users' charging decisions can be a result of the trade-off between distance-related and time-related anxiety, and can be moderated by several external factors (e.g., regions and individual differences). The findings can support the optimization of charge station distribution and EV charge recommendation algorithms., Comment: Accepted by Human Factors and Ergonomics Society International Annual Meeting 2023

Although the rapid development of battery technology has greatly increased the range of battery electric vehicle (BEV), the range anxiety is still a major concern of BEV users or potential users. Previous work has proposed a framework explaining the influential factors of range anxiety and users' trust toward the range estimation system (RES) of BEV has been identified as a leading factor of range anxiety. The trust in RES may further influence BEV users' charging decisions. However, the formation of trust in RES of BEVs has not yet explored. In this work, a questionnaire has been designed to investigate BEV users' trust in RES and further explore the influential factors of BEV users' charging decision. In total, 152 samples collected from the BEV users in mainland China have been analyzed. The BEV users' gender, driving area, knowledge of BEV or RES, system usability and trust in battery system of smartphones have been identified as influential factors of RES in BEVs, supporting the three-layer framework in automation-related trust (i.e., dispositional trust, situational trust and learned trust). A connection between smartphone charging behaviors and BEV charging behaviors has also been observed. The results from this study can provide insights on the design of RES in BEVs in order to alleviate range anxiety among users. The results can also inform the design of strategies (e.g., advertising, training and in-vehicle HMI design) that can facilitate more rational charging decisions among BEV users., Comment: Accepted and reported at Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2022

Ecodriving guidance includes courses or suggestions for human drivers to improve driving behaviour, reducing energy use and emissions. This paper presents a systematic review of existing eco-driving guidance studies and identifies challenges to tackle in the future. A standard agreement on the guidance design has not been reached, leading to difficulties in designing and implementing eco-driving guidance for human drivers. Both static and dynamic guidance systems have a great variety of guidance results. In addition, the influencing factors, such as the suggestion content, the displaying methods, and drivers socio-demographic characteristics, have opposite effects on the guidance result across studies, while the reason has not been revealed. Drivers motivation to practice eco behaviour, especially long-term, is overlooked. Besides, the relationship between users acceptance and system effectiveness is still unclear. Adaptive driving suggestions based on drivers habits can improve the effectiveness, while this field is under investigation.

The advent of intelligent vehicles that can communicate with infrastructure as well as automate the movement provides a range of new options to address key urban traffic issues such as congestion and pollution, without the need for centralized traffic control. Furthermore, the advances in the information, communication, and sensing technologies have provided access to real-time traffic and emission data. Leveraging these advancements, a dynamic multi-objective eco-routing strategy for connected & automated vehicles (CAVs) is proposed and implemented in a distributed traffic management system. It is applied to the road network of downtown Toronto in an in-house agent-based traffic simulation platform. The performance of the proposed system is compared to various single-objective optimizations. Simulation results show the significance of incorporating real-time emission and traffic state into the dynamic routing, along with considering the expected delays at the downstream intersections. The proposed multi-objective eco-routing has the potential of reducing GHG and NOx emissions by 43% and 18.58%, respectively, while reducing average travel time by 40%.

Mitigating the substantial undesirable impact of transportation systems on the environment is paramount. Thus, predicting Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions is one of the profound topics, especially with the emergence of intelligent transportation systems (ITS). We develop a deep learning framework to predict link-level GHG emission rate (ER) (in CO2eq gram/second) based on the most representative predictors, such as speed, density, and the GHG ER of previous time steps. In particular, various specifications of the long-short term memory (LSTM) networks with exogenous variables are examined and compared with clustering and the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model with exogenous variables. The downtown Toronto road network is used as the case study and highly detailed data are synthesized using a calibrated traffic microsimulation and MOVES. It is found that LSTM specification with speed, density, GHG ER, and in-links speed from three previous minutes performs the best while adopting 2 hidden layers and when the hyper-parameters are systematically tuned. Adopting a 30 second updating interval improves slightly the correlation between true and predicted GHG ERs, but contributes negatively to the prediction accuracy as reflected on the increased root mean square error (RMSE) value. Efficiently predicting GHG emissions at a higher frequency with lower data requirements will pave the way to non-myopic eco-routing on large-scale road networks {to alleviate the adverse impact on the global warming