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Sponsor: DOE

Modeling the Supply and Demand Effects of Transportation Network Companies with an Autonomous Fleet

Status

Complete

Project Timeline

March 29, 2019 - June 30, 2019

Principal Investigator

Michael HylandMichael Hyland

Project Team

Younghun Bahk, Navjyoth Sarma

Sponsor & Award Number

DOE: 9F-60156

Areas of Expertise

Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data Public Transit, Shared Mobility, & Active Transportation

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

The project is a subtask to Argonne National Laboratory to integrate an optimization framework into Argonne’s POLARIS system that currently run on a stand-alone simulation platform using a rolling-horizon approach. The simulation runs on a simplified grid network. POLARIS is an integrated platform developed at Argonne National Laboratory. On the demand side, it simulates agent decision making ranging from long-term decisions such as location choice, car ownership etc. to short term choices such as activity scheduling, location, mode, and route choice. On the supply side, entire set of multi-modal movements are simulated. These include drive-only in a personal car, using a TNC service, walk-to-transit, bike-to-transit, drive-to-transit, TNC-to/after-transit and so on. The travelers are moved on a multi-layered network with driving, walking, and transit links, where a traveler is contributing to the road congestion when driving and transit vehicle load when in a bus or a train. Travelers walk on links derived from the road network. Transit buses contribute to the road congestion and are affected by congestion, as well. Currently; however, the TNC services are not optimized. Travelers request a TNC vehicle and are assigned to the closest vehicle available. The integration will improve both models. The TNC optimization platform will use travel times that are dynamically updated as the POLARIS simulation is rolling and will utilize the details of a high-precision transportation network. POLARIS will model the behavior of TNC’s more realistically although we do not have a TNC company with an autonomous fleet yet. However, it is safe to assume that these companies will use an optimization approach to provide customer satisfaction and ultimately increase their profits. The travelers in POLARIS will be able to evaluate their mode options including TNC-only or TNC-to/after-transit more realistically. Since POLARIS already has the capability of simulating TNC vehicles, the supply-side effects of these TNC’s will be represented.

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Modeling Reverse Flows of Selected Recycled Materials, their Associated Energy Use and their GHG Emissions – An Application to California and a Blueprint for the US

Status

In Progress

Project Timeline

January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2025

Principal Investigator

Jean-Daniel Saphores

Project Team

Craig Rindt, Monica Ramirez-Ibarra, Andre (Yeow Chern) Tok, Brian Casebolt, Llorenc Miquel I Solé, Joshua Swank, Nader Rezaei, Brian Mora, Fenny Patel, Stephen Ritchie, Diego Rosso, Zhe (Jared) Sun, Lenka Mindzak, Pedro Martin, Uma Iyer, Farzana Khatun

Sponsor & Award Number

DOE: 21-01-SA-5104
(Subcontract to REMADE Institute)
(Administered by the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering)

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

The objective of this project is to create a unique systems analysis tool for REMADE, the recycling industry, and U.S. consumers of recycled materials (using the California State Freight Forecasting Model (CSFFM) in the California Statewide Freight Forecasting and Travel Demand Model (CSF2TDM) as a framework) that will enable REMADE, recycling agencies, and industry to analyze and project the generation, flow, recycling, reuse, and disposal of scrap metal, e-waste, selected plastics, and fibers from packaging, and their associated net energy consumption and net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, under different scenarios. The tool will be developed using California as a case study; detailed step-by- step instructions to enable the extension of this tool to other states and the U.S. will be developed.

Increasing Transportation Efficiency and Resiliency through MODeling Assets and Logistics (INTERMODAL) Integrated Intermodal Freight Models and Tools for Efficiency and Resiliency

Status

In Progress

Project Timeline

December 4, 2023 - June 3, 2026

Principal Investigator

Stephen Ritchie

Project Team

Andre (Yeow Chern) Tok, Chenyu Yuan, Mingqi Yao

Sponsor, Program & Award Number

DOE // ARPA-E: 115993-19879
(Subcontract to University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Areas of Expertise

Freight, Logistics, & Supply Chain Intelligent Transportation Systems, Emerging Technologies, & Big Data

Team Departmental Affiliation

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Project Summary

As a subcontractor to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Irvine (ITS-Irvine) will lead Task 1 as described in the main proposal, to develop a National Freight Data Hub.  This will provide a unique national platform for collecting, storing, processing, and visualizing of freight performance measurement and analysis, using both direct data collection as well as third party and secondary sources. Performance is viewed in both economic and operational terms. The data will be made available to other researchers and policy analysts in state and local agencies, as well as be disseminated periodically through a regularly updated web portal. It lies at the core of a comprehensive research program undertaken at all partner institutions, providing a national picture built from local and regional perspectives obtained by our geographically distributed partners.  In addition, ITS-Irvine will contribute to Task 2. Logistics Systems Innovations and Modeling, bringing recent research on heavy-duty zero-emission operation of port drayage and long haul tracking to the project. In Task 3. Intermodal Freight and Energy Infrastructures, ITS-Irvine will contribute expertise on renewable energy infrastructures, ports and intermodal facilities, and resilient and sustainable supply chains, by drawing on prior and concurrent research and advising on potential new solutions.  ITS-Irvine’s role in Task 4. Computation Platform as a Virtual Testbed will generally be advisory in nature, offering guidance based upon prior experience modeling freight systems.

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