1. Fuel Your Natural Gas Vehicle in the Los Angeles Basin Jenneille Hsu March 14, 2011

2. Policy Question Where to build new natural gas stations in the LA Basin?

3. Why Natural Gas Vehicles Benefits: – Low emissions – Lower price than gasoline – Carpool lane But… – Short range (200~250miles) – Too less fueling stations

4. Natural Gas Fuel Stations in California

5. 100 mile buffer 50 mile buffer

6. 100 mile buffer

7. 200 mile buffer

8. 340 Mile 230 Mile 200 mile buffer

9. The Los Angeles Basin

10. Natural Gas Fuel Station in the LA Basin

11. Hotspot Analysis 1.Distance to current stations close: 1; far: 5 2.Distance to highway close: 5; far: 1 3.Commute time long: 5; short: 1

12. Commute minute in the LA Basin

13. The index = (distance to current stations) * 0.5 + (distance to highway) * 0.3 + (commute time) * 0.2 The higher the index, the better the location to build a new fuel station

14. Raster “distance to current stations”

15. Raster “distance to highway”

16. Raster “commute time”

17. Calculating… We find the locations to build new fuel stations!

18. Index of building new stations

19. Metadata

20. Skills Original Data (Natural Gas Stations) Geocoding with address, and longitude and latitude Hotspot analysis Inset map Buffer Clip Dissolve Merge Modeling Distance Select by attribution Chart Graduate symbol