Category: Multi-Slide Guides

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Decarbonization of Offroad, Rail, Marine, and Aviation Technologies

October 29, 2025 | Jim Lane

The DORMA program focuses R&D on efficient utilization of renewable fuels, hydrogen, and e-fuels to achieve deep GHG emission cuts across multiple heavy-duty sectors. Technology accomplishments include demonstrating 95% ammonia substitution in marine engines, yielding an 85% CO2 eq reduction. Future work is heavily focused on increasing R&D for Hydrogen Internal Combustion Engines (H2ICE), advancing […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to National Impacts of Community-Level Strategies to Decarbonize and Improve Convenience of Mobility

October 28, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project links the POLARIS, GTT, and TEMPO national modeling tools to assess the national impacts of community-level, convenience-focused decarbonization strategies. This strategic connection extends high-fidelity regional analysis to the nationwide county level. The resulting quantitative insights help communities optimize investments in highly-ranked strategies like Land Use and Travel Demand Management. This informs multi-objective decisions […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to PATHWAYS TO NET ZERO MOBILITY

October 27, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project develops “Pathways to Net Zero Mobility” by creating computational models (e.g., Shared Automated Vehicle, SAV) to evaluate system-level impacts of decarbonization strategies across connectivity, electrification, and multimodal operations. Utilizing the POLARIS framework, the research informs regional planning and policy. Analysis shows transit is critical to mobility, with service removal causing substantial economic and […]

Protected: ABLC Next 2025 Presentations

October 26, 2025 | Jim Lane

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The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Co-Optimization of Vehicles and Routes (CoVaR)

October 26, 2025 | Jim Lane

To Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency This completed project, CoVaR, co-optimized vehicle and route efficiency for commercial fleets. Key advances included improving RouteE energy models into fast lookup tables and integrating Single Vehicle Multi-Stop (SVMS) functionality into the Fleet Management System (FMS) and Intelligent Driver Assistance System (IDAS). This powertrain-agnostic technology was validated to achieve […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Improving Network-Wide Fuel Economy and Enabling Traffic Signal Optimization Using Infrastructure and Vehicle-Based Sensing and Connectivity

October 23, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project advances traffic management by developing novel sensor fusion techniques, combining radar and camera data to track vehicles through corridors. Optimization methods, constrained by NEMA logic, utilize factors like Truck Speed Priority (TSP). Simulation demonstrates significant fuel consumption reductions, achieving 14.8% improvement over coordinated fixed-time signals. The ultimate goal is to validate a ≥20% […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to OPTIMIZING DRONE DEPLOYMENT FOR MORE EFFECTIVE MOVEMENT OF GOODS

October 22, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project optimizes drone deployment for microfreight using an improved optimization model (OMDD) that provides near-optimal fleet solutions in seconds (e.g., 0.01 seconds), greatly enhancing practicality. The public tools, including an Energy Calculator, support industry deployment and awareness. Analysis of mixed fleets (drones and ground vehicles) reveals that optimizing ground vehicle circuits significantly reduces energy […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Simulation of Jet Engine Performance using SAF Blends

October 21, 2025 | Jim Lane

This research uses exascale computing (PeleLMeX solver) to perform high-fidelity simulations of combustor performance using Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) blends up to 100%. A validated, reduced two-component surrogate chemical kinetic model for HEFA-SPK (74 species) was developed. This simulation capability accelerates and de-risks the expensive, risky certification of newer SAFs beyond the current 50% blend […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to Fuel effects on aviation engine emissions – a modeling tool for SAF screening

October 20, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project delivers a low-computational-cost 0-D/1-D reactor network tool to rapidly screen Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF). The tool, validated against CFM56 engine data, incorporates reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms for fuel effects on emissions (NOx, CO, PM, PN). This technology enables fuel producers and OEMs to accelerate aviation decarbonization by de-risking new SAF candidates. The model […]

The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to A low GHG advanced SI engine that can operate on NG and NG/H2 blends with diesel-equivalent performance for off-road applications

October 19, 2025 | Jim Lane

This project develops an advanced Spark Ignition engine operating on Natural Gas (NG) and NG/Hydrogen blends, targeting 45% BTE (diesel-equivalent). Technical advances include coupled 1D/CFD simulations and a novel in-situ CO2/H2O exhaust gas sensor for fast EGR feedback and H2 ratio estimation. The goal is Stoichiometric operation with near-zero CH4 slip. This results in up […]

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