Marcia PincusOn Detail to Vehicle Technologies Office

Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

DOE’s Focus on Energy Efficient Mobility Systems February, 2017

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Transportation is Second Leading Sector in Primary Energy Consumption

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… with dramatic energy implications

Fundamental Disruption is Occurring in Transportation

Unprecedented Change …. • Transportation is changing

• Mobility is changing

• The questions are changing

• The solutions are changing

• VTO is changing to meet increasingly complex energy and mobility needs

– Better represent the future range of knowledge and experience required

– System focus

– EEMS research

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Dramatic Implications For Energy

Does increased Connectivity, Automation, and Mobility lead to increased or reduced transportation energy use and GHG emissions?

Data from: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.12.001

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How will disruptive

forces in the mobility

landscape affect energy consumption in the future?

Opportunities to enable

and/or encourage

deep gains in energy

efficiency?

Identify the technologies and system

level innovations that provide the biggest

levers?

Opportunities to better

understand how travelers

make mobility

decisions?

How can we better

support and encourage a maximum-mobility,

minimum-energy future?

What are the Gaps in Understanding? Opportunities?

“A Maximum-Mobility, Minimum-Energy Future”

“Connected, Automated, Electric, Shared?”

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Technologist in Cities

R&DVirtual Ultra-High

Efficiency City

Energy Efficient Mobility Systems

System-level focus Connected & Automated Transport across modes

Managed behaviors & decisions In concert with DOT and others

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SMART Mobility Consortium: Five National Laboratories

Multi-Year, Multi-Lab Effort (3 years, 5 labs)

Energy implications of connectivity & automation

Multi-modal transport of people and goods

City-scale urban mobility models for planning

Informed fueling infrastructure investments

Understanding consumer mobility decisions

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SMART Mobility Consortium: What Do We Want to Learn?

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How multi-modal transport

can achieve energy efficiency

between and within urban areas.

How individual vehicle/network behaviors

might change with CAV deployment

and affect energy and mobility

How informed investments in

refueling infrastructure can overcome barriers

to more sustainable mobility choices

How mobility patterns and traveler

behaviors might be affected by

technology/policy changes

How automation, connectivity, electrification,

and shared use might impact the

urban network/traveler

Urban Science

Mobility Decision Science

Connected and

Automated Vehicles

Multi-modalAdvanced Fueling Infrastructure

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CONNECTED & AUTOMATED VEHICLES (CAVs)

Designing for the nexus of safety, energy, and mobility

Critical Research Questions:

What are the GHG, energy,

technology, and usage implications of

connected & autonomous

technologies?

How will these systems operate in the

real world?

What are the critical levers to promote

“eco-CAV” solutions?

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MOBILITY DECISION SCIENCE

Technology and policy that anticipate how decisions are made

Critical Research Questions

What are the transportation energy

impacts of potential lifestyle

trajectories?

How do consumers and companies

make travel decisions in the short /

medium / long-term?

What mechanisms are available to

influence consumer decisions?

Driving

Lifestyle

Transportation System Decision

Points

Travel

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Energy-efficient, seamless multi-modal transport of people and goods

MULTI-MODAL

Smart Mobility

Critical Research Questions

What are the potential energy and

GHG benefits of reduced modality

interface barriers?

What are the interactions between

mass transit and transportation

network companies?

What opportunities do evolving

household spending and commodity

flow bring for freight logistics?

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URBAN SCIENCE

Providing scientific support to decision makers

Critical Research Questions

How will SMART-enabled mobility impact the

urban traveler in terms of VMT, congestion,

vehicle ownership, mobility-as-a-service?

What are the long-term impacts on the urban

built environment?

What are the energy impacts of optimized

signal management and automated mobility

districts?

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ADVANCED FUELING INFRASTRUCTURE

Mapping EV Technology with Travel Patterns Reduced EVSE Locations

from 18,000+ to 281 in Seattle

Informed infrastructure investments that drive consumer adoption

Critical Research Questions

What infrastructure is required to

support future mobility systems?

How can next-gen fueling/charging

infrastructure enable low-carbon

transportation?

What are the costs and benefits,

and where should infrastructure

investments be made?

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• Embedded technical expert (currently in Columbus)– On the ground liaison to DOE and

lab expertise (modeling, simulation, data collection, management, and analysis)

• Connects to SMART Mobility– Coordination for mutual benefit

of DOT’s Smart City Challenge and EERE’s SMART Mobility consortium

• Supports DOT/DOE MOU

Technologist in Cities Pilot Program

Starting with Columbus in

FY17

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1.Collaborate on SMART Mobility and Smart City Challenge

2.Lead and establish best practices on data – generation, collection, sharing

3.Leverage DOE expertise on transportation electrification

4.Leverage DOT Expertise on automated and connected vehicles

5.Utilize existing stakeholder networks, such as DOE’s Clean Cities Coalitions

6.Explore opportunities to support a technologist in cities

DOE and DOT MOU on Transportation Systems

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Future R&D Opportunities in Mobility Are Still Emerging (spanning all modal options for people and goods movement)

Advanced Sensors

Control Systems

Powertrain Optimization

Vehicle Design Lightweighting

AI/Machine Learning

Big Data

Thank You