Abdirashid Dahir

Abdirashid Dahir is a PhD Candidate studying the equity and justice implications of energy transition in transportation for underserved communities in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University. His dissertation project conceptualizes, measures and models just transition to electric vehicles through transportation, energy, and climate justice lenses. His research specifically looks into how inequities in the electric vehicle transition intersect with pervasive transportation, energy, and climate injustices. Abdirashid is a community-engaged and applied researcher who uses qualitative interviews, quantitative social science surveys, and complexity science to study equitable transition to electric vehicles. Prior to joining The Ohio State University, Abdirashid worked on sustainable transportation projects at the University of Seoul, South Korea. His research in sustainable transportation and urban development has spanned 6 years starting in South Korea. In South Korea, he studied how Asian cities are different from North American and European contexts in an era of knowledge-based innovation and services in post-industrial cities.  He also worked with research scholars developing a database with over 500 transit projects from more than 40 countries to understand the drivers of transit infrastructure costs on a global scale at the Marron Institute of Urban Management at New York University.  In the US context, he has studied the impacts of bicycle facilities on residential property values and the impacts of bicycle networks on bicycling.