A recent project from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute provides new insights to the impact of freight trains using alternative fuel sources. Virginia Tech photo

Researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute recently created the nationwide multi-train simulation software, NeTrainSim, to show the impacts of a countrywide shift away from diesel.

Ahmed Aredah , a graduate student at the Sanghani Center for Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics , is working on the project led by Hesham Rakha.