U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Freight/Fuel Transportation Optimization Tool
Kristin Lewis, PhD
U.S. DOT Volpe Center
Dr. Kristin Lewis presented "U.S. DOT Volpe Center’s Freight/Fuel Transportation Optimization Tool: Exploring Future Energy Scenarios."
The Volpe Center has developed a flowable, multimodal transportation optimization tool to evaluate the costs, transportation requirements, and impacts of future freight scenarios, particularly those focused on the energy sector. Current analyses are evaluating potential alternative and fossil fuel transport scenarios. Dr. Lewis discussed what the tool does and how we’re using it.
About the Speaker
Dr. Kristin Lewis works at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Volpe Center, where her work focuses on resilience in transportation; alternative jet fuel transportation, availability, and sustainability analyses; and environmental impact assessments.
Dr. Lewis supports the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) as the head research and technical advisor to the FAA-sponsored Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI) and provides technical expertise to FAA as a member of the U.N. International Civil Aviation Organization Committee for Aviation Environmental Protection (ICAO CAEP) Alternative Fuels Task Force.
She also leads the development of the Freight and fuel Transportation Optimization Tool (FTOT), a national model for assessing transport of fuels, raw materials, and co-products, which has been sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, FAA, and the Department of Energy.