Modeling Freight Transportation as a System-of-Systems to Determine Adoption of Emerging Vehicle Technologies

A. Guerrero De La Peña, N. Davendralingam, A. K. Raz, V. Sujan, D. Delaurentis, G. Shaver, N. Jain

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Abstract

The U.S. freight transportation system is a complex agglomeration of interacting systems that includes line-haul and urban delivery vehicles, inter and intra-city highways, and support infrastructure. In order to project the evolution of the system and the market penetration of emerging freight vehicle technologies, it is important to model the aforementioned interconnections, public adoption preferences, and operational and policy constraints that impact it. In this paper, we propose a system-of-systems engineering approach to define the scope of influential mechanisms and abstract an appropriate model of the U.S. freight transportation system with focus on a line-haul scenario. Implementation over a multi-city network is posed as a constrained mixed-integer linear program. The allocation and operation of three vehicle architectures - conventional diesel, diesel platooning, and battery electric - are optimized over a multi-city network to minimize the fleet-wide total cost of ownership over a twenty-year time horizon. We examine the effects of projected changes in energy cost, freight demand, and hours-of-service regulations on the annual market share evolution of these technologies.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Conference on Transportation and Development 2018
Subtitle of host publicationTraffic and Freight Operations and Rail and Public Transit - Selected Papers from the International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018
EditorsYinhai Wang, Michael T. McNerney
PublisherAmerican Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
Pages156-169
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9780784481547
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Transportation and Development 2018: Traffic and Freight Operations and Rail and Public Transit, ICTD 2018 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: Jul 15 2018Jul 18 2018

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Transportation and Development 2018: Traffic and Freight Operations and Rail and Public Transit - Selected Papers from the International Conference on Transportation and Development 2018

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Transportation and Development 2018: Traffic and Freight Operations and Rail and Public Transit, ICTD 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period07/15/1807/18/18

Funding

The authors thank Cummins Inc. for the support provided during the development of this research.

FundersFunder number
Cummins Incorporated

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