Transportation Decarbonization Pathways Assessment Through Metropolitan Area Simulation

Transportation Decarbonization Pathways Assessment Through Metropolitan Area Simulation Aymeric Rousseau @ Argonne National Laboratory Abstract: In this presentation, we will be discussing how agent-based transportation system simulation has been used to estimate the impact of advanced technologies and policies on mobility, energy, emissions, GHG, cost, equity… POLARIS is a high-performance agent-based modeling framework designed for simulating large-scale transportation systems. As an integrated network-demand model, all aspects of travel decisions (departure time, destination choice, planning and rescheduling as well as route choices) and travel execution (traffic flow, transit simulation, fleet movements) are modeled simultaneously to estimate the energy impact of vehicle technologies and mobility services at a range of scales (neighborhood to metropolitan region). A flexible workflow, centered around POLARIS, has been developed as part of the US DOE smart mobility Consortium. Examples of applications focusing on increased transit ridership, multi-modal travel, electrification, connectivity and automation will be discussed. Bio: Aymeric Rousseau is the Interim Director of the Center for Decarbonization Solutions Deployment (CDSD) and the Director of the Vehicle and Mobility Systems Department at Argonne National Laboratory. He received his engineering diploma at the Industrial System Engineering School in La Rochelle, France in 1997 and an Executive MBA at Chicago Booth in 2019. For the past 25 years, he has been evaluating the impact of advanced vehicle and transportation technologies from a mobility and energy point of view including the development of Autonomie (vehicle system simulation) and POLARIS (large-scale transportation system simulation). As part of CDSD, he coordinates stakeholder engagement, technical assistance and deployment related to decarbonization across Argonne. In addition to leading numerous projects for private companies and US Department of Energy, Aymeric Rousseau has been providing the vehicle energy consumption analysis for the US DOT NHTSA fuel economy regulations and has authored or co-authored more than 175 papers related to transportation decarbonization.