Timing: December 5-6

Location: CentraleSupélec - Université Paris Saclay

The conference is jointly sponsored by:

Chaire Armand PEUGEOT (CentraleSupélec & ESSEC Business School)
Chair Energy and Prosperity (Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
IMD Institut de la Mobilité Durable RENAULT-ParisTech

Coordinators: Virginie Boutueil (ENPC), Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC), Marc Petit (CentraSupélec), Yannick Perez (CentraSupélec), Jean-Pierre Ponssard (Ecole Polytechnique)

Scope of the conference

The conference will address issues on the following topics

The driving force of cities in promoting clean transport
Orgnaizational forms for new forms of mobility
Infrastructure developments for electromobility

Researchers, industry experts, and policy makers from public, private, and civil society are invited to expose their view and analysis on current potentials, new windows of opportunities and discuss policy options based on cutting-edge research.

The conference will include both plenary and parallel sessions as well as a round table.

Thursday 5th December: Plenary Sessions

8h45 - 9h00 Welcome

9h00 - 10h30: Plenary session 1: The driving force of cities in promoting clean transport

Chairman: to be confirmed

Juan Pablo Montero (Department of Economics PUC-Chile): Designing car bans for sustainable transportation
Herrie Schalekamp (Centre for Transport Studies, Cape Town), Beyond BRT: innovation in minibus-taxi reform in South African cities
Jean Grebert (Renault – Expert in Transportation and Mobility Systems): Archaic smart cities and future transport ecosystems.

10h30 - 11h00: Coffee Break

11h00 - 12h30: Plenary session 2: New organizational forms for new mobility patterns

Chairman: Yann Chazal (Renault)

Adam Cohen (Transportation Sustainability Research Center, Berkeley) Integrated mobility and the commodification of transportation
Jane Zhao (Kansas University): Resource Orchestration in Meta-Organizations: The Role of Catalytic Orchestrators in Large-Scale Innovation Meta-Organizations
Jan Lepoutre (ESSEC): Robust disruption: Competition and collaboration dynamics in the launch of electric vehicles in the automotive industry

12h30 - 14h00: Lunch Break

14h00 - 15h30: Plenary session 3: Fast charging infrastructure for electromobility

Chairman: Damien-Pierre Sainflou (PSA Groupe)

Erik Figenbaum (Institute of Transport Economics, Oslo): Charging into the future: Analysis of fast charger usage
Simon Funke (Fraunhofer): Invest in fast-charging infrastructure or in longer ranges?
Régis Le Drezen (Enedis): Connection of fast charging station to distribution grids.

15h30 - 16h00: Coffee Break

16h00 - 16h30: Daniel Sperling (University of California – Davis): Three Revolutions, Steering Automated, Shared and Electric Vehicles to a better future.

16h30 - 18h30: Round Table: VtoG

Chairman: Ladimir Prince (PSA Groupe)

Willett Kempton (Delaware University): New experiments with EVs and electricity storage
Paul Codani (DREEV): First commercial experiments of VtoG in Europe
Emilia Suomalainen (VEDECOM): Technical challenges for VtoH – VtoB
Cécile Gobert (AVERE France): EV and PV coupling issues

18h45: Cocktail

19h30: Conference Dinner in Restaurant “At Home”

(Invitation only)

Friday 6th December: Parallel Sessions

9h00 - 10h30

Session 1: Electric Vehicles and Distribution Grids: Marc Petit

Paper 1: Felipe Gonzalez Venegas (Chaire Armand Peugeot): Can DERs fully participate in emerging local flexibility tenders?

Paper 2: Frank Geerts (Elaad NL): Is a flex market a solution for accommodating the uptake EVs?

Paper 3: Abderaman Benchekroun (Geredis/Séolis – Yncréa-L2EP): Demande-side management of electric vehicles and electric water heaters connected to distribution grids

Session 2: Policies driving the transition towards sustainable mobility: Virginie Boutueil and Jean-Pierre Ponssard

Paper 1: Guy Meunier, Lucie Moulin and Jean-Pierre Ponssard (Institut Polytechnique de Paris): The case of Fuel Cell Buses in Europe

Paper 2: Christina Littlejohn and Stef Probst (U de Leuven): What Role for Electric Vehicles in the Decarbonization of the Car Transport Sector in Europe?

Paper 3: Anna Voskoboynikova: Comparison of Car Sharing Policies and Services in 4 European Cities

Session 3: Forecasting Electric Mobility impacts and energy transition: Yannick Perez

Paper 1: Aurélien Bigo (Institut Polytechnique de Paris): Scenarios to decarbonize transport by 2050

Paper 2: Franscisco Ramos-Real (Universidad La Laguna): LCA of different types of light personal electric vehicles in the Canarian Islands

Paper 3: Remy Lauvergne (RTE – CentraleSupélec - LGI): Electric mobility scenarios for 2050

Session 4: Business models and Vehicule to potential usages (VtoX): Willett Kempton (U Delaware)

Paper 1: Icaro Gomes (Vedecom – CentraleSupélec - LGI): Tariff design with distributed energy ressources and EVs: A Californian case study

Paper 2: Dirk Lauinger (EPFL - Vedecom): Reliable frequency regulation through vehicle-to-grid

Paper 3: Remi Maniak (CRG): Title to be confirmed

10h30 - 11h00: Coffee Break

11h00 - 12h30

Session 5: Autonomous Vehicles: Danielle Attias and Guy Fournier

Paper 1: Guy Fournier (Hochschule Pforzheim): Potential influence of internet economy on urban mobility - The example of Autonomous vehicles

Paper 2: Fabio Antonialli (LGI - CentraleSupélec): Multi-criteria evaluation of the economic impact of collectve autonomous transport

Paper 3: Dimitri Konstantas (U. Geneva): Cybersecurity: challenging issues for autonomous vehicles

Session 6: Infrastructures deployment: Pascal Da Costa

Paper 1: Bassem Haidar (Chaire Armand Peugeot): Charging Infrastructure Projects: Did They Really Boost the French Electric Vehicle Market?

Paper 2: Jean Hassler (PSA – CentraSupélec-GeePs): Fast charging infrastructures for EVs

Paper 3: Yacine Sehimi (INSEA-VEDECOM): Analysis of the performance of a Vehicle-to-Vehicle fast charging infrastructure based on a fleet of shared electric vehicles.

Session 7: Raw materials, industrial policy for clean mobility: Jan Lepoutre

Paper 1: Charles Stuyck (Umicore): The recycling of EV batteries – first experiences

Paper 2 : Tjakko Zijlema (Aurubis): The EV battery supply chain – a raw material perspective

Session 8: EVs in Emerging Countries: Virginie Boutueil

Paper 1: Pradyumna Bhagwat (EUI – Florence School of Regulation): Charging up India’s Electric Vehicles: Infrastructure deployment & power system integration

Paper 2: Haruki Sawamura: Electric Vehicle Taxi Fleet in India (Invitation)

Paper 3: To be Confirmed

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