Title :
An agent-based hydrogen vehicle/infrastructure model
Author :
Stephan, Craig ; Sullivan, John
Author_Institution :
Ford Res. & Adv. Eng., Dearborn, MI, USA
Abstract :
An agent-based model is presented of the transition of a personal transportation system based on conventional fuels to one based on an alternative fuel, such as hydrogen, requiring a new support infrastructure. The model allows two types of agents, vehicle owners and hydrogen fuel suppliers, to interact on a grid of roads representing a metropolitan region, and shows how their initial placement on the grid can lead either to successful or to unsuccessful transitions.
Keywords :
fuel; grid computing; hydrogen; simulation; traffic engineering computing; transportation; agent-based hydrogen vehicle-infrastructure model; alternative fuel; conventional fuel; hydrogen fuel suppliers; personal transportation system; road grid; support infrastructure; vehicle owners; Automotive engineering; Carbon dioxide; Costs; Fossil fuels; Fuel cell vehicles; High temperature superconductors; Hydrogen; Road vehicles; Security; Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2004. CEC2004. Congress on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8515-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2004.1331110
