【创源大讲堂】Three Roads to Low-Emission Long-Haul Trucking: An Optimization Perspective
讲座时间：2026年09月01日上午09点
讲座地点：九里校区机械馆2223室
主讲人：Nils Boysen 教授
主持人：郭鹏
主讲人简介：Dr. Nils Boysen is a Professor and Chair of Operations Management at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Before academia, he worked in software engineering and IT consulting, including IBM Global Services. His research focuses on facility logistics, warehousing, transportation, and automobile production, using mathematical modelling, combinatorial optimization, and complexity analysis. He has published more than 200 scholarly works in leading journals including Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, European Journal of Operational Research, and Omega. He serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Science and EJOR and as Department Editor for Production Management and Scheduling at OR Spectrum. His honors include EJOR Best Paper Awards, the 2022 Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award, and #4 for current research and #3 for lifework in Wirtschaftswoche’s 2022 ranking.
讲座简介：
Long-haul trucking remains a major challenge for transport decarbonization. Although several technologies promise substantial emission reductions, their technical potential does not necessarily translate into equivalent savings under real-world operating conditions. This talk examines three pathways toward lower-emission long-haul trucking from an operations research perspective: truck platooning, charge-while-driving infrastructure, and range-extending battery trailers. For each pathway, we formulate the underlying operational decision problem and investigate how practical constraints reduce the theoretically attainable benefits. In truck platooning, fuel savings depend on the availability of compatible partners and sufficient flexibility in departure times. For charge-while-driving technologies, optimization can identify particularly valuable road segments and substantially reduce the required extent of electrification, although infrastructure costs remain considerable. Battery trailers offer high technical emission-reduction potential and may prolong the use of existing diesel fleets, but synchronization, charging, and trailer availability lead to unsupported journeys and significant operational losses. The comparison shows that technological emission-reduction estimates should be interpreted as upper bounds. Operations research is required to determine how much of this potential survives constraints related to timing, routing, infrastructure, and resource availability. The results suggest that platooning is mainly an incremental measure, partial road electrification may be attractive for dense freight corridors, and battery trailers can serve as a transitional technology. More broadly, the analysis indicates that the most promising long-term pathway is likely vehicle-based, infrastructure-light, and compatible with broadly available charging infrastructure.
