Informs Annual Meeting Phoenix 2018

INFORMS Phoenix – 2018

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n WC28 North Bldg 221A Practice- Transportation-Operations II Contributed Session

n WC29 North Bldg 221B

System and Operation Issues in Wireless Charging Electric Vehicles and Electrified Road Infrastructure Sponsored: TSL/Urban Transportation Sponsored Session Chair: Young Jae Jang, KAIST, Daejeon, 34141, Korea, Republic of 1 - Dynamic Charging Infrastructure Deployment for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Trucks Ziqi Song, Utah State University, 4110 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT, 84322-4110, United States, Zhaocai Liu Inspired by the rapid development of charging-while-driving (CWD) technology, plans are ongoing in government agencies worldwide for the development of electrified road freight transportation systems through the deployment of dynamic charging lanes. This en route method for the charging of plug-in hybrid electric trucks is expected to supplement the more conventional charging technique, thus enabling significant reduction in fossil fuel consumption and pollutant emission from road freight transportation. In this study, we investigated the optimal deployment of dynamic charging lanes for plug-in hybrid electric trucks. 2 - V2V Wireless Power Transfer between Electric Automated Vehicles Mojtaba Abdolmaleki, University of Michigan, Ann, MI, 48109, United States, Neda Masoud To date, three major concerns have hindered widespread adoption of electric vehicles (EVs): the high cost of batteries, a lack of sufficient charging infrastructure, and the limited driving range of EVs. This proposal tackles all three challenges by introducing a new concept of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) tethered power transfer (TPT) between EVs to facilitate frequent, real-time, and on- demand charging. We quantify the impact of adopting this technology in terms of reductions in infrastructure investments that would otherwise be required, and energy savings. 3 - The State of the Art in Operation and System Study on Wireless Charging Electric Vehicle Systems Young Jae Jang, KAIST, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineer, Yuseong-Gu, Daejeon, 34141, Korea, Republic of The state-of-the-art in operations and systems-related studies of wireless charging electric vehicles (EVs) is presented. The wireless charging EV is one of emerging transportation systems in which the EV’s battery is charged via wireless power transfer (WPT) technology. The system makes use of charging infrastructure embedded under the surface of the road that transfers electric power to the vehicle while it is in transit. The goal of the presentation is to provide researchers and practitioners with an overview of research trends and to provide a guide to promising future research directions. 4 - The Impact of Charging Infrastructure on Electrified Shared Mobility Systems Zhengtian Xu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48105- 2540, United States, Zhibin Chen, Daniel Vignon, Yafeng Yin In the foreseeable future, electric vehicles (EVs) will largely permeate the shared- mobility market. Considering EVs’ scant battery size, the long charging time, and the scarce distribution of charging facilities at the early stage, a suitable deployment of charging infrastructure can significantly advantage the movements and reduce the charging delay of shared EVs, thereby benefiting the system operations. With such a quest, this study investigates the impacts of different types of charging infrastructure, including charging stations, swapping stations, and charging lanes, on the performance of shared mobility systems.

Chair: Young-Ji Byon, Khalifa University of Science Technology, Al Saada Street and Airport Road, P.O. Box 127788, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates 1 - Layout Optimization of Business Outlets for Railway Scattered Goods Express Yongxiang Zhang, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, 610031, China, Qingwei Zhong, Qiyuan Peng, Wenxin Li Due to the characteristics of scattered goods, how to optimize the layout of business outlets for railway scattered goods express in transportation network has become a worth researching problem. In this paper, firstly, portraying the railway scattered goods express network as a two-level single assignment network composed of three-layer logistics nodes. Then, based on the construction of the assignment network, a mixed integer programming model is established to minimize the total cost of the railway scattered goods express network. Finally, a real-world case of Chengdu is used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method. 2 - The Access Management Application for Improving Performance of a Signalized Intersection Maxim A. Dulebenets, Florida A&M University-Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32311, United States, Amir Masoud Rahimi, Arash Mazaheri, Junayed Pasha, Masoud Kavoosi Different access management techniques have been widely used to improve the traffic flow conditions in large metropolitan areas. This study aims to assess the effects of replacing the direct left turn with the right-turn U-turn maneuver at the signalized intersection performance. The SimTraffic and AIMSUN simulation models are developed to estimate the major intersection and network performance indicators. The computational experiments are conducted for one of the busiest intersections in Tehran metropolitan area (Iran) and demonstrate advantages from the proposed access management treatment. 3 - Optimizing Intermodal Terminal Operations Base Model through Simulation Modeling: A Comparison on Different Settings Fatemeh Rezaeifar, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, 76010, United States, Mohammad Najafi, Brian L. Huff Increasing demand in terminals will raise the risk of terminal congestion due to the increase in system bottlenecks. This research develops a framework for optimizing the capacity of intermodal Underground Freight Transportation (UFT) terminals. To test the variations of performance indicators a discrete event simulation model is used for two scenarios (with and without a stack-yard). The findings confirms that the percentage of bottlenecks in both scenarios significantly decreased and Scenario No. 1 and No. 2 ship respectively 34% and 59% more than the annual expected shipped containers. Also, Scenario No. 2 can handle 25% more containers per year. 4 - A Near Real-time Algorithm for System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment with Multiple Origins and Destinations Mehrzad Mehrabipour, Washington State University, 1630 NE Valley Road, Apt B204, Pullman, WA, 99164, United States, Ali Hajbabaie This study introduces an efficient algorithm to find near-optimal solutions to the System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Problem (SODTA) with multiple origins and destinations in real-time. The proposed Distributed Optimization and Coordination Algorithm decomposes the network-level traffic assignment problem into several intersection-level subproblems that can be solved individually. The complexity of the problem is significantly reduced, and the solutions can be found in real-time. The results in a case study of 20 intersections are compared with the global optimal solution and the maximum observed optimality gap was 5%. 5 - Air Traffic Noise Monitoring with ADS-B Signal, GIS, and BIM in UAE Young-Ji Byon, Associate Professor, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, 127788, United Arab Emirates, Tadahiro Kishida It is essential to monitor and assess air traffic noise levels in the vicinity of airports for impacts on residential and commercial zones in UAE. Recently, commercial airlines have started equipping their planes with ADS-B signal emitters. A GIS layer in a raster format can accumulate the noise in a quantifiable unit of decibels in associated cells for various tempo-spatial analyses of air traffic noises. In order to accurately account for the noise on the ground surface, digital elevation model integrated with building information modeling can provide noise projection on buildings.

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