Undergraduate Research: An Archive - 2021 Program

Hugues Martin Dit Neuville ’21
OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND FINANCIAL
ENGINEERING
Certificate in Environmental Studies
URBAN
SUSTAINABILITY
THESIS TITLE
Total Recall: An
Optimization Model to
Help Ban Diesel and
Petrol Fueled Cars from
Paris' Streets
ADVISER
Ronnie Sircar,
Professor of Operations
Research and Financial
Engineering
On October 12, 2017, Paris' Deputy Mayor,
Christophe Najdovski, announced that the city
would ban all petrol and diesel fueled cars from
circulating within its city limits by 2030. To
achieve this goal, the French energy provider
Total was designated the lead in restructuring
Paris' electric charging network over the next
decade and has promised to add an additional
1,830 new public charging stations. However,
this task has been complicated by Paris' goal
of eliminating a large portion of its roadside
parking spots, pushing public parking almost
exclusively to underground car parks. This
removes one of the principle traditional locations
for public charging stations. I adapted an existing
optimization model in order to distribute
these new charging stations across Paris'
arrondissements. The model accelerates the
adoption of electric vehicles by minimizing the
travel and queuing costs incurred by EV owners.
The proximity of the city's existing underground
car parks to points of interests also was analyzed,
helping to determine how charging points should
be allocated across this existing infrastructure.
I also conducted an analysis for London,
demonstrating that the model can be applied to
various urban environments.
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