The electric grid is on the cusp of significant transformation. On the demand side, the greatest pressure for change comes from ensuring a smooth transition to electrified transportation systems. In fact, large populations of electric vehicles can be either an immense resource of flexibility for the grid or a foe, depending on how car charging is managed both spatially as well as in time.
In this virtual talk, Professor Anna Scaglione will explain why the costs of power generation and delivery will increase while global CO2 emissions may be minimally affected unless car charging is aligned with peaks of renewables.
Professor Scaglione will also discuss model strategies for computing congestion pricing for travel and charging at the retail level and describe how to design digital interfaces so that individuals can make independent driving and charging decisions while minimizing energy and transportation costs.
About Cornell’s CTECH Keynote series:
Transportation and infrastructure systems define modern society and provide critical services that ensure healthy and economically viable communities. Future development of urban infrastructure systems, such as transportation systems and the urban environment, must address the complex systems challenges of population growth and urbanization, the acceleration of climate change, environmental integrity, community health, and increased economic disparities.
The CTECH (Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health) Keynote series provides an open forum for multidisciplinary discussion, bringing together practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and the general public to examine these issues and solutions through a social justice and health equity lens. Together, we will explore innovative research and technologies ranging from new service/business models to connected and automated electric vehicles that address the challenges in infrastructure, transportation, environment, and community health systems.
While highlighting the impact of the STEM disciplines on civic well-being and public health, this series also affords the opportunity for the dissemination of knowledge and actionable recommendations to meet these global challenges.
The CTECH Keynote series is developed by
Dr. H. Oliver Gao, Howard Simpson Professor with the
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University and director of the US Department of Transportation’s
Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH).
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