Multi‐Decadal Decarbonization Pathways for U.S. Freight Rail
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Virginia Polytechnic Inst. and State Univ. (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg, VA (United States)
- DB E.C.O., Laguna Niguel, CA (United States)
- Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
A‐STEP is a first‐of‐its‐kind, integrated, open‐source software tool aimed at guiding freight rail decarbonization decision‐making. It has tools for studying energy use details for individual trains, networks of trains, battery and hydrogen charging stations, national energy sourcing and pricing, and overall decarbonization costs and environmental impacts. It gives analysts an ability to study the challenges of making such change happen. Completely amenable to analyst specified inputs and parameter values, it can be customized to provide outputs for a wide variety of assumptions about future energy conditions and technological advances. Written in Python, C++, and VB.Net, A‐STEP can be implemented on both Windows and Linux‐based platforms.
- Research Organization:
- North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AR0001471
- OSTI ID:
- 2282849
- Report Number(s):
- DE--AR0001471
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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