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National freight transport models are valuable tools for assessing the impact of various policies and investments on achieving decarbonization targets under different future scenarios. However, these models struggle to address several…
Low carbon synfuel can displace transport fossil fuels such as diesel and jet fuel and help achieve the decarbonization of the transportation sector at a global scale, but large-scale cost-effective production facilities are needed.…
The electrification of heavy-duty commercial vehicles (HDCVs) is pivotal in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and urban air pollution; however, this transition poses significant challenges for the existing electric grid, which is not…
Estimating health benefits of reducing fossil fuel use from improved air quality provides important rationales for carbon emissions abatement. Simulating pollution concentration is a crucial step of the estimation, but traditional…
Electrochemical CO2 reduction (CO2R) offers a promising approach to decarbonize chemical manufacturing through production of carbon-neutral fuels. However, insufficient performance and instability of membrane electrode assembly (MEA)…
Carbon emissions are rising at an alarming rate, posing a significant threat to global efforts to mitigate climate change. Electric vehicles have emerged as a promising solution, but their reliance on lithium-ion batteries introduces the…
NEMF is a novel network-based ecosystem modelling framework. It is a flexible and easy-to-use tool for modelling ecosystems with low- to intermediate complexity. It is designed around the idea of visualizing an ecosystem through a network…
This paper reviews intermodal transportation systems and their role in decarbonizing freight networks from an operations research perspective, analyzing over a decade of studies (2010-2024). We present a chronological analysis of the…
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a solution for distributed model training across decentralized, privacy-preserving devices, but the different energy capacities of participating devices (system heterogeneity) constrain real-world…
Field sensor networks have important applications in environmental monitoring, particularly climate change, air, water and soil quality, in disaster monitoring and in border security. The reduced cost of electronics, sensors and actuators…
N$\nu$DEx aims to search for the neutrinoless double beta decay in $^{82}$Se using a high pressure $^{82}$SeF$_6$ gas time projection chamber (TPC). This paper presents a simulation and analysis framework developed specifically for the…
The growing integration of electric vehicle (EV) fleets into transportation services and energy systems requires accurate modeling of battery discharge and state-of-charge (SoC) evolution to ensure reliable vehicle operation and grid…
Effective usage of renewable energy requires ways of storage and delivery to balance energy demand and availability divergences. Carbon-free chemical energy carriers are proposed solutions, converting clean electricity into stable media for…
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