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Ahmed S. Aredah

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA

United States

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Netrainsim: A Network Freight Train Simulator for Estimating Energy/Fuel Consumption

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 13 Mar 2023
Ahmed S. Aredah, Karim Fadhloun, Hesham Rakha, George List, Mohamed Hegazi and Andreas Hoffrichter
Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University, Deutsche Bahn (DB) E.C.O and Deutsche Bahn (DB) E.C.O
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NeTrainSim, Network Trains Simulation, energy consumption

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Netrainsim: Network Freight Train Simulator for Assessing Environmental Impacts of Decarbonization Strategies

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Jun 2023
Hesham Rakha, Ahmed S. Aredah, Karim Fadhloun, George List, Mohamed Hegazi and Andreas Hoffrichter
Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State University - Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Deutsche Bahn (DB) E.C.O
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NeTrainSim, Network Trains Simulation, Energy Consumption, Environmental Footprint

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CargoNetSim: A hybrid agent-based and system dynamics framework for cost–energy–emissions optimization in multimodal freight transport

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 04 Feb 2026
Ahmed S. Aredah and Hesham Rakha
Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech
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Multi-Modal Freight Transport, Agent-Based Modeling, System Dynamics, Freight Optimization, Sustainable Logistics

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A Multi-Resolution Hierarchical Visibility Graph with On-Demand Phased Adjacency for Global Maritime Route Planning

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 May 2026
Ahmed S. Aredah and Hesham Rakha
Virginia Tech and Virginia Tech
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Visibility graph, Hierarchical pathfinding, Maritime route planning, Polygon simplification, Corridor-constrained search, Yao spanner