Elizabeth Traut (E 2013)
(she/her)
About
Elizabeth Traut is an affiliate assistant research professor with the Larson Transportation Institute in the Penn State College of Engineering. Her research on sustainable transportation uses modeling and optimization to evaluate tradeoffs in design and policy decisions for transportation systems. Traut’s research interests include public transit, electric vehicles, charging infrastructure, travel behavior data analysis, economic and statistical modeling of transportation systems, and life cycle assessment. She received her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2013, where her PhD dissertation work examined tradeoffs between electrified vehicle design and deployment of charging infrastructure, including implications for life cycle cost, greenhouse gas emissions, and fuel consumption of personal vehicles.
Publications during PhD
Tessler, M.E., & Traut, E.J. (2022). Hurricane resiliency methods for the New York City electric bus fleet. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 105, 103255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2022.103255
Traut, E.J., & Steinfeld, A. (2019). Identifying Commonly Used and Potentially Unsafe Transit Transfers with Crowdsourcing. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 122, 99-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2019.02.005
Traut, E.J., Cherng, T.C., Hendrickson, C., & Michalek, J.J. (2013). US Residential Charging Potential for Electric Vehicles. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 25, 139-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.10.001
Traut, E., Hendrickson, C., Klampfl, E., Liu, Y., & Michalek, J.J. (2012). Optimal Design and Allocation of Electrified Vehicles and Dedicated Charging Infrastructure for Minimum Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Cost. Energy Policy, 51, 524-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.08.061