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Eleftheria Kontou

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Assistant Professor

205 North Mathews Ave

Urbana, IL 61801-2352

United States

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

10

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775

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8

Scholarly Papers (10)

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1.

Electric Vehicle Community Charging Hubs in Multi-Unit Dwellings: Scheduling and Techno-Economic Assessment

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Electric Vehicle Community Charging Hubs in Multi-Unit Dwellings: Scheduling and Techno-Economic Assessment

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 120, 103776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2023.103776
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 29 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 30 May 2023
Ruolin Zhang, Noah Horesh, Eleftheria Kontou and Yan Zhou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Argonne National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Government of the United States of America - Argonne National Laboratory
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electric vehicles, multi-unit dwellings, charging hubs, job shop scheduling problem, techno-economic assessment

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Disparities and Equity Issues in Electric Vehicles Rebate Allocation

Guo, S., & Kontou, E. (2021). Disparities and equity issues in electric vehicles rebate allocation. Energy Policy, 154, 112291.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2021
Shuocheng Guo and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Alabama - Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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electric vehicles, rebates, incentives, equity, spatial patterns

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Managed Residential Electric Vehicle Charging Minimizes Electricity Bills While Meeting Driver and Community Preferences

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 30 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2023
Tinghan Ye, Shanshan Liu and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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electric vehicle, charging management, electricity bills, residential load

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Coupled Management of Electric Vehicle Workplace Charging and Office Building Loads

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2024
Shanshan Liu, Alex Vlachokostas, Chen Si and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Government of the United States of America - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Computer Science and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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electric vehicle, workplace charging, electric vehicles-building nexus, charging management, building loads control

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Designing Electric Vehicle Incentives to Meet Emissions Reduction Targets

Wu, Y. C., & Kontou, E. (2022). Designing electric vehicle incentives to meet emission reduction targets. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 107, 103320.
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 11 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 20 Jun 2022
Yen-Chu Wu and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Electric vehicles, Rebates, Charging stations, Incentives, Optimization model, Emission reduction

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Quantifying Transportation Energy Vulnerability and Its Spatial Patterns in the United States

Liu, S., & Kontou, E. (2022). Quantifying transportation energy vulnerability and its spatial patterns in the United States. Sustainable Cities and Society, 82, 103805.
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 04 May 2022
Shanshan Liu and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Downloads 31 (1,304,549)
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Transportation energy, Vulnerability, Fuel costs, Electric vehicles

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A Bilevel Optimization Framework for Flood Resilient Electric Vehicle Infrastructure on Urban Transport Networks

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 14 Apr 2026
Wencheng Bao and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Electric vehicles, flooding, charging infrastructure, bileveloptimization, stochastic user equilibrium

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Equity by Design in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Networks

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 05 May 2026
Yen-Chu Wu and Eleftheria Kontou
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Electric vehicles, Charging infrastructure, Location model, Equity, Multi-objective bilevel optimization, Genetic algorithm

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The Impact of Electric Tariffs on Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 05 Feb 2026
Elisheba Spiller, Ruolin Zhang, Elizabeth Stein, Eleftheria Kontou and Alexander Yoshizumi
Resources for the Future, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, New York University School of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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fleets, electric tariffs, Electric Vehicles, charging cost, medium- and heavy-duty

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A Quantitative Assessment of Daily Transportation Energy Demand and Electrification Potential Across the Dwelling Types in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 Aug 2025
Sumaiya Afrose Suma, Melvyn Li, Felita Ong, Kaili Wang, Eleftheria Kontou and Khandker Mohammed Nurul Habib
University of Toronto, University of Toronto, University of Toronto, University of Toronto, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and University of Toronto - Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering
Downloads 13 (1,518,554)

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Electric Vehicle, Energy Consumption, Dwelling Types, Data Analytics, Vehicle Fuel Prediction