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California has set aggressive targets and timelines for the sales and adoption of zero-emission trucks in the state. However, developing a charging infrastructure network for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks is challenging and will take time. There has been much debate about whether the electric grid capacity expansion can keep pace with this anticipated mass adoption of electric vehicles. The requirements for long-haul and short-haul operations for electric trucks are substantially different when it comes to distance of travel, parking availability, hours of service, and infrastructure charging, among other things. In this webinar, researchers from the University of Southern California—who are experts in long-haul trucking operations—and researchers from the University of California, Riverside—who possess complementary expertise in short-haul trucking (e.g., drayage) operations—will address the issues of freight decarbonization and supply chain resiliency through innovative electric truck fleet management strategies, as well as different synergies and tradeoffs encountered between long-haul and short-haul operations.
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Speakers
Dr. Petros Ioannou is a University Professor at the University of Southern California and holds the A.V ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Endowed Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies and co-founder of the University Transportation Center METRANS and Associate Director for research for the Pacific Southwest Region (PSR) University Transportation Center (UTC) at the University of Southern California. He is also the founder and Director of a successful Master program in Financial Engineering housed at the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Director of a newly established center on Responsible AI for Decision Making in Finance (CREDIF). Dr. Ioannou is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, National Academy of Inventors and Foreign Member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences, a Life Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFAC and AAAS. He is the author/co-author of 11 books and over 400 research papers in the areas of controls and applications and intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Kanok Boriboonsomsin is a research engineer and Associate Director for the College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology at the University of California, Riverside. He has over 20 years of research and development experience in the areas of sustainable transportation, intelligent transportation systems, and connected and automated vehicles with a focus on the medium-duty and heavy-duty sector. His research is aimed at quantifying the impacts of freight transportation as well as developing and evaluating strategies for mitigating those impacts. Dr. Boriboonsomsin was recently appointed to serve on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Mobile Sources Technical Review Subcommittee (MSTRS). He also serves on the Transportation Research Board's Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Committee and Urban Freight Transportation Committee.