This five-year, $403k Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to advance systems science at the transportation-energy nexus. The university will develop methods for holistic management of transportation, residential, and commercial energy use to enhance environmental sustainability in urban areas. Key products and services include coupled electric vehicle and residential/office energy...
This $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.079) supports the planning phase of a U.S.-Africa Research Center for Clean Energy (UARCCE). The grant will enable coordination efforts to (1) establish an energy solutions network to co-develop interdisciplinary, convergent research approaches and (2) leverage the network to identify use-inspired energy knowledge gaps. Specific clean energy research hypotheses will...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to establish the conceptual and algorithmic foundations for grid-responsive electrified transportation systems. The $500,000 award, effective September 1, 2024 through August 31, 2029, supports research to develop novel models for integrating power and transportation systems, algorithms to aggregate and control the spatiotemporal flexibility of electric vehicle charging loads, and...
This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $199,999, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The award supports the development of an "Interaction-Aware Management Framework to Improve the Efficiency and Sustainability of Electric Transportation and Power Systems." The key products and services to be delivered through this 3-year project (01/01/2025 - 12/31/2027)...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $452,155 to the University of Texas at Austin to develop a decentralized optimization framework for next-generation transportation and power systems with large-scale transportation electrification. The key research objectives are to: (1) advance network modeling strategies to understand interactions among heterogeneous and decentralized stakeholders; (2) optimize information...
This $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at Texas Tech University from April 2022 to March 2024 related to developing novel modeling, control, and optimization methods for connected and automated vehicles. The research aims to improve the efficiency and sustainability of urban transportation systems while respecting individual...
The National Science Foundation Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems awarded Northwestern University a $457,459 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support the development of a fine-scale climate and air quality analysis framework to assess neighborhood-scale air quality co-benefits and tradeoffs of transportation electrification strategies. Specifically, the University will create emission scenarios...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program award (CFDA 47.070) for $199,806 provides funding to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) to develop an interaction-aware management framework to improve the efficiency and sustainability of electric transportation and power systems. The key technical components of the project include: 1) a robust multi-agent reinforcement learning control model for power systems to...
This $199,933 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop an interaction-aware management framework to improve the efficiency and sustainability of electric vehicle (EV) transportation systems and power grids. The key components of the project include: A multi-agent reinforcement learning control model for power systems to dynamically adjust electricity prices and...
This $549,999 National Science Foundation award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports research from September 2022 through August 2025 to develop an energy justice framework and assessment tools for evaluating the impacts of electric vehicle deployment on electricity infrastructure and consumers. George Mason University is the primary awardee and will collaborate with Syracuse University on specific tasks. The project team will design metrics and...