1. Study interdependencies between energy, freight, and passenger transportation systems
2. Identify and model de novo infrastructures
3. The following are goals for this step:
- a. Formulate multi-commodity network flow
- b. Develop decomposition techniques
- c. Provide high-performance computing solutions
- d. Identify Pareto front of solutions to balance NETSCORE
4. Provide a national blueprint and modeling process: energy policy for state and federal research and investment for the next 40 years
5. Transform engineering educational programs: create new breed of 21st-century engineer having multidisciplinary skills