OPTIMAL GLOBAL PLANNING TOOL FOR FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION

Session Overview

Speaker: Nawaf Nazir, Staff Research Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories (PNNL)

Intermodal Freight Transportation accounts for a meaningful share of U.S. emissions, and that share is expected to grow with e-commerce. This presentation introduces a decision-support tool that combines the Global Change Analysis Model (GCAM) with multi-modal route planning to evaluate how fuels such as biofuels, e-fuels, hydrogen, ammonia, and battery electric can support cost-effective transition.

The tool combines rail, road, and maritime container shipping models to identify optimal fuel-mix choices, freight modes, routes, and associated cost and emissions outcomes across the full intermodal system.

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