EV charger access, Galway City

Road distance from every Census Small Area to its nearest public EV charger, showing which neighbourhoods are underserved.

Question

Which neighbourhoods in Galway City are furthest by road from a public EV charger?

Tools

QGIS

Data

CSO Census Small Areas, public EV charge point locations, OpenStreetMap road network

CRS

Irish Transverse Mercator (EPSG:2157)

Problem

Ireland’s EV targets depend on public charging, but straight-line distance hides how far people actually have to drive. This project measures road distance from each Census Small Area to its nearest charger to find the gaps.

Data

• CSO Census Small Area boundaries, with population
• Public EV charge point locations
• OpenStreetMap road network, clipped to Galway City

Method

• Converted Small Area polygons to centroids
• Built a routable road network from OSM
• Calculated the shortest road distance from each centroid to its nearest charger
• Classified Small Areas into distance bands and mapped them as a choropleth

Result

Road distance to the nearest public EV charger by Census Small Area.

Add: your final map, plus 2–3 findings with numbers. For example: the share of Small Areas (or residents) more than 2 km by road from a charger, and which parts of the city are worst served.

Code

Add: link to the GitHub repo or QGIS model, e.g. https://github.com/carlos6is/galway-ev-access