Search Results - "Kotz, Andrew"

Impact of Time-Varying Passenger Loading on Conventional and Electrified Transit Bus Energy Consumption by Liu, Luying, Kotz, Andrew, Salapaka, Aditya, Miller, Eric, Northrop, William F.

“…Transit bus passenger loading changes significantly over the course of a workday. Therefore, time-varying vehicle mass as a result of passenger load becomes an…”
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Lagrangian Hotspots of In-Use NOX Emissions from Transit Buses by Kotz, Andrew J, Kittelson, David B, Northrop, William F

“…In-use, spatiotemporal NOX emissions were measured from a conventional powertrain transit bus and a series electric hybrid bus over gradients of route kinetic…”
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Novel Vehicle Mass-Based Automated Passenger Counter for Transit Applications by Kotz, Andrew J., Kittelson, David B., Northrop, William F.

“…Federally subsidized transit funding is based on ridership; therefore, an accurate count of passengers is imperative. Most existing automated passenger…”
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Real-World NOX Emissions of Transit Buses Equipped with Diesel Exhaust Aftertreatment Systems by Kotz, Andrew J., Kittelson, David B., Northrop, William F., Schmidt, Niklas

“…In this work, we compare nitrogen oxide (NO X ) emissions from vehicles equipped with 2013 and 2015 model year (MY) diesel engines and exhaust aftertreatment,…”
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Life-cycle implications of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle technology for medium- and heavy-duty trucks by Lee, Dong-Yeon, Elgowainy, Amgad, Kotz, Andrew, Vijayagopal, Ram, Marcinkoski, Jason

“…This study provides a comprehensive and up-to-date life-cycle comparison of hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs) and their conventional diesel…”
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Transit Bus Electrification Evaluation from GPS Speed Traces by Kotz, Andrew J., Miller, Eric, Watson, Andrea, Kelly, Kenneth J.

“…Through the USAID-NREL partnership, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has evaluated the potential for transit bus…”
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ASPIRES: Airport Shuttle Planning and Improved Routing Event-driven Simulation by Wang, Qichao, Sigler, Devon, Liu, Zhaocai, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth, Phillips, Caleb

“…Most of the existing traffic simulation packages require significant calibration work to be able to reflect reality. To evaluate special operations including…”
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Data-driven simulation-based planning for electric airport shuttle systems: A real-world case study by Liu, Zhaocai, Wang, Qichao, Sigler, Devon, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth J., Lunacek, Monte, Phillips, Caleb, Garikapati, Venu

“…•Planning and operation of an electrified airport shuttle system.•Event-driven simulation model is used for the evaluation of system performance.•Data-driven…”
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Development of heavy-duty vehicle representative driving cycles via decision tree regression by Zhang, Chen, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth, Rippelmeyer, Luke

“…•Characterized driving behaviors for multiple heavy-duty vocations via on-road data.•Illustrated critical metric distributions from on-road data for each…”
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Route optimization for energy efficient airport shuttle operations – A case study from Dallas Fort worth International Airport by Sigler, Devon, Wang, Qichao, Liu, Zhaocai, Garikapati, Venu, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth J., Lunacek, Monte, Phillips, Caleb

“…The objective of this research is to reduce energy consumption from intra airport shuttle operations by optimizing routes and schedules, without compromising…”
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Developing a heavy-duty vehicle activity database to estimate start and idle emissions by Zhang, Chen, Ficenec, Karen, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth, Sonntag, Darrell, Fulper, Carl, Brakora, Jessica, Mo, Tiffany, Ballare, Sudheer

“…Heavy-duty vehicle start and idling activities were characterized from two datasets to improve emission estimates in the MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator…”
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Lagrangian Hotspots of In-Use NO X Emissions from Transit Buses by Kotz, Andrew J., Kittelson, David B., Northrop, William F.

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Life-cycle implications of hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle technology for medium- and heavy-duty trucks by Lee, Dong-Yeon, Elgowainy, Amgad, Kotz, Andrew, Vijayagopal, Ram, Marcinkoski, Jason

“…This study provides a comprehensive and up-to-date life-cycle comparison of hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks (FCETs) and their conventional diesel…”
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Characterization of commercial vehicles’ start-up operations from in-use data by Zhang, Chen, Miller, Eric, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth, Thornton, Matthew, Geller, Michael, Brezny, Rasto

“…•Commercial vehicles’ start operation is characterized using extensive on-road data.•Vehicle cold-start emissions would be influenced substantially by vehicle…”
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Route optimization for energy efficient airport shuttle operations – A case study from Dallas Fort worth International Airport by Sigler, Devon, Wang, Qichao, Liu, Zhaocai, Garikapati, Venu, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth J., Lunacek, Monte, Phillips, Caleb

“…The objective of this research is to reduce energy consumption from intra airport shuttle operations by optimizing routes and schedules, without compromising…”
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Route Optimization for Energy Efficient Airport Shuttle Operations - A Case Study from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport by Sigler, Devon, Wang, Qichao, Liu, Zhaocai, Garikapati, Venu, Kotz, Andrew, Kelly, Kenneth J., Lunacek, Monte, Phillips, Caleb

“…Air travel and requisite surface traffic supporting passenger arrival/departure constitutes a significant portion of travel and emissions in cities with large…”
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Discovering non-compliant window co-occurrence patterns by Ali, Reem Y., Gunturi, Venkata M. V., Kotz, Andrew J., Eftelioglu, Emre, Shekhar, Shashi, Northrop, William F.

“…Given a set of trajectories annotated with measurements of physical variables, the problem of Non-compliant Window Co-occurrence (NWC) pattern discovery aims…”
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Real-World NO X Emissions of Transit Buses Equipped with Diesel Exhaust Aftertreatment Systems by Kotz, Andrew J., Kittelson, David B., Northrop, William F., Schmidt, Niklas

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Trichostrongylus colubriformis larvae induce necrosis and release of IL33 from intestinal epithelial cells in vitro: Implications for gastrointestinal nematode vaccine design by Andronicos, Nicholas M., McNally, Jody, Kotze, Andrew C., Hunt, Peter W., Ingham, Aaron

“…[Display omitted] ► A Trichostrongylus colubriformis-intestinal epithelial cell co-culture system was developed. ► Trichostrongylus colubriformis consumed…”
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Data Driven Approach to Vehicle Emissions Reduction by Kotz, Andrew John

“…Anthropogenic climate change and air pollution resulting from vehicle emissions are major issues facing society. Recent research and government regulations…”
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