Infrastructure

This paper examines scaling behaviors of urban landscape and street design metrics with respect to city population in Latin America. We used data from the SALURBAL project, which has compiled and harmonized data on health, social, and built environment for 371 Latin American cities above 100,000 inhabitants. These metrics included total urbanized area, effective mesh size, area in km2 and number of streets. We obtained scaling relations by regressing log(metric) on log (city population). The results show an overall sub-linear scaling behavior of most variables, indicating a...

This article describes the origins and characteristics of an interdisciplinary multinational collaboration aimed at promoting and disseminating actionable evidence on the drivers of health in cities in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Network for Urban Health in Latin America and the Caribbean and the Wellcome Trust funded SALURBAL (Salud Urbana en América Latina, or Urban Health in Latin America) Project. Both initiatives have the goals of supporting urban policies that promote health and health equity in cities of the region while at the same time generating generalizable...

This paper examines the problem of planning an Electric Vehicle (EV) charging facility that provides a high quality of service in charging EVs and incurs a low cost to the facility manager. This problem is challenging because a facility with a larger charging capacity (hence better service quality) can be more expensive to build and operate. This paper contributes to the literature by planning an EV charging facility that overcomes this trade-off and achieves Pareto optimality, i.e. a facility with a higher quality of service but at a lower cost. We propose an optimization model to size an...

This study introduces a framework for improving accessibility to and quantifying social equity priorities in electric vehicle charging infrastructure through strategic workplace charger placement. We develop a customizable equity evaluation model that quantifies access disparities across demographic groups. This model is used to construct an optimization framework that informs charging infrastructure deployment decisions. Leveraging commuting patterns, we demonstrate in the case study of Oakland, California that strategically placing workplace charging can achieve, on average, a 1.8-fold...