A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households

This paper focuses on predicting the total transportation and energy costs (TTEC) for single-family households. A system boundary consisting of grid-powered electricity (GE) and solar-powered electricity (SE) as energy inputs and transportation vehicles that include Gasoline Vehicles (GV) and Electr...

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Main Authors: Vinay Gonela, Raghavan Srinivasan, Atif Osmani
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Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-11-01
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenef.2024.1502854/full
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description This paper focuses on predicting the total transportation and energy costs (TTEC) for single-family households. A system boundary consisting of grid-powered electricity (GE) and solar-powered electricity (SE) as energy inputs and transportation vehicles that include Gasoline Vehicles (GV) and Electric Vehicles (EV) as transportation methods for energy outputs is studied. A novel three-stage evaluation framework is proposed to predict the TTEC under varying single-family household parameters. In the first stage, an energy balance simulation model is proposed to estimate the TTEC for an individual household. In the second stage, the simulation model is run several times under varying parameters to develop synthetic data that is used as input for the third stage supervised machine learning (SML) models. In the third stage, numerous SML models are trained and tested to determine the best SML model that enables us to predict the TTEC with high accuracy. This best SML model can be used as a substitute for simulation model, thereby reducing the computation burden of running the simulation model for each new single-family household. A case study of single-family households in Central Texas in the US is used as an application of the framework. The results indicate that regression SML models are best in predicting the total costs with an adjusted R-squared of 99.13% and 98.88% on training and testing datasets, respectively. In addition, the parameter analysis of regression SML models suggests that the house size, number of GVs, number of EVs, EV and GV ownership costs, and solar implementation at households are the most important parameters to predict TTEC for single-family households. Counterintuitively, number of residents, GV and EV mileage, solar system size, battery capacity and peak solar hours are not significant parameters that contribute to TTEC prediction.
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spelling doaj-art-19fad449da1f469cb874573a1d6310692025-08-20T02:23:46ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Energy Efficiency2813-67992024-11-01210.3389/fenef.2024.15028541502854A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family householdsVinay Gonela0Raghavan Srinivasan1Atif Osmani2Management and Marketing, Texas A&M University Central Texas, Killeen, United StatesInformation Systems and Operations Management, Ball State University, Muncie, IN, United StatesPaseka School of Business, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, United StatesThis paper focuses on predicting the total transportation and energy costs (TTEC) for single-family households. A system boundary consisting of grid-powered electricity (GE) and solar-powered electricity (SE) as energy inputs and transportation vehicles that include Gasoline Vehicles (GV) and Electric Vehicles (EV) as transportation methods for energy outputs is studied. A novel three-stage evaluation framework is proposed to predict the TTEC under varying single-family household parameters. In the first stage, an energy balance simulation model is proposed to estimate the TTEC for an individual household. In the second stage, the simulation model is run several times under varying parameters to develop synthetic data that is used as input for the third stage supervised machine learning (SML) models. In the third stage, numerous SML models are trained and tested to determine the best SML model that enables us to predict the TTEC with high accuracy. This best SML model can be used as a substitute for simulation model, thereby reducing the computation burden of running the simulation model for each new single-family household. A case study of single-family households in Central Texas in the US is used as an application of the framework. The results indicate that regression SML models are best in predicting the total costs with an adjusted R-squared of 99.13% and 98.88% on training and testing datasets, respectively. In addition, the parameter analysis of regression SML models suggests that the house size, number of GVs, number of EVs, EV and GV ownership costs, and solar implementation at households are the most important parameters to predict TTEC for single-family households. Counterintuitively, number of residents, GV and EV mileage, solar system size, battery capacity and peak solar hours are not significant parameters that contribute to TTEC prediction.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenef.2024.1502854/fullsimulationsupervised machine learningenergy coststransportation costssolar-powered electricity generationelectric vehicles
spellingShingle Vinay Gonela
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A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
Frontiers in Energy Efficiency
simulation
supervised machine learning
energy costs
transportation costs
solar-powered electricity generation
electric vehicles
title A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
title_full A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
title_fullStr A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
title_full_unstemmed A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
title_short A novel simulation and supervised machine learning-based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single-family households
title_sort novel simulation and supervised machine learning based prediction framework to predict the total transportation and energy costs for single family households
topic simulation
supervised machine learning
energy costs
transportation costs
solar-powered electricity generation
electric vehicles
url https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenef.2024.1502854/full
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