Executive Summary In the past century, as energy usage rapidly increased and fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions have increased along with it, transportation has accounted for a large share of this. With e-commerce and delivery increasing in popularity and trucks accounting for around a third of transport-related carbon emissions and 20% of the global demand for oil [1], it is important to evaluate more energy-efficient and sustainable alternatives. One example of such is using

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... ity powered semi-trucks instead of semi trucks fueled by diesel. Multiple companies are already in the process of producing electric semi-trucks including Freightliner and Tesla, whose electric semis are supposed to enter production this year. Transitioning to electric semi-trucks could help with both reducing the environmental impact of trucks and reducing the total operating cost in the long run. In order to model which of the corridors should be developed for electrification we first created an importance score based on three different factors: economic growth, environmental consideration, and total cost for installation. Economic growth was found based on money saved by the decreased idling times of DCFC chargers and total average traffic. Environmen-Copyright © SIAM Unauthorized reproduction of this article is prohibited 186 Team 13343 tal consideration was based off of the average number of electric vehicle policy / actions in the state. Total cost was calculated using values found from the previous part on number of charging stations and chargers needed per trucking corridor. These values were then normalized and used to rank the five corridors in part 2. The results showed that the Minneapolis to Chicago corridor should be targeted first followed by Los Angeles to San Francisco then San Antonio to New Orleans then Jacksonville to D.C. then Boston to Harrisburg.