PhD Research

Development of an Integrated Vehicle and Traffic Simulator for network wide simulation of Alternative Fueled Vehicles (2011-2014)

The research focuses on the development of an integrated simulator, “CUIntegration” that can evaluate routing strategies based on energy and/or traffic measures of effectiveness for any alternative fueled vehicles. The integrated interface was designed to run any vehicle model developed with MATLAB-Simulink, and any roadway network developed with traffic microscopic simulation software VISSIM.

Decision Support Tool for an Analysis of Operational, Environmental and Economic Impacts of Transportation Alternative Fuels” (2010-2011)

This research focused on evaluating the environmental impacts of three alternative transportation fuels: electricity, ethanol and compressed natural gas. A case study was conducted using the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) latest vehicle emission model, MOVES, and the PARAMICS microscopic traffic simulation tool to analyze the emission impacts of alternative transportation fuels for a road network in Greenville, South Carolina. For each alternative transportation fuel considered in this study, its emission and fuel consumption impacts were evaluated based on different market shares.