Powering Long Haul Freight: Hydrogen Refueling Station Siting Using Pipeline Infrastructure

Yang, Jialu; Hosseinpanahi, Danesh; Zou, Bo; Lin, Jane

doi:10.1016/j.trd.2026.105226

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Powering Long Haul Freight: Hydrogen Refueling Station Siting Using Pipeline Infrastructure

2026-01-29
By Yang, Jialu ; Hosseinpanahi, Danesh ; Zou, Bo ; ...

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Yang, Jialu ; Hosseinpanahi, Danesh ; Zou, Bo ; Lin, Jane
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University of Illinois at Chicago. Department of Civil, Materials & Environmental Engineering
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Center for Freight Transportation for Efficient and Resilient Supply Chain (FERSC) Tier 1 University Transportation Center (UTC)
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Freight Transportation Fuel Cell Vehicles Hydrogen Fuels Hydrogen Refueling Long Haul Mixed Integer Linear ProgramLong Haul Freight TransportationFreight Analysis Framework
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2026.105226
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Open Access; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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United States
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Elsevier
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Hydrogen fuel cell trucks (HFCTs) are a promising alternative to diesel trucks (DTs) for decarbonizing long-haul freight while retaining comparable operational performance. This study investigates a large scale HRS siting problem with the aim of minimizing the capital investment in HRS construction and hydrogen delivery cost. A hybrid delivery method is considered: hydrogen is delivered from production hubs by the existing natural gas pipeline network to storage reservoirs, then by truck to HRSs. Assuming 10% of the 2050 Freight Analysis Framework Version 5 (FAF5) truck flow as HFCTs on the U.S. continental interstate highway network, results show that pipeline-based delivery offers major economic advantages over truck-based delivery. Findings highlight the strategic value of leveraging existing pipeline infrastructure and suggest that targeted policy support for hydrogen delivery and refueling infrastructure is essential for facilitating the cost-effective adoption of HFCTs in long-haul freight.
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This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 1.0 Universal (CC BY 1.0) license (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Please cite this article as: Jialu Yang, Danesh Hosseinpanahi, Bo Zou, Jane Lin, Powering long haul freight: hydrogen refueling station siting using pipeline infrastructure, Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 154, 2026, 105226, ISSN 1361-9209, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2026.105226.
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