Students Showcase Future of Fuel Retailing
Johns Hopkins University takes top honors in The Fuels Institute’s 2018 Case Competition.
Dec 11, 2018
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The Fuels Institute, founded by NACS in 2013, is proud to announce that a proposal by students from Johns Hopkins University took top honors at The Fuels Institute’s annual meeting, FUELS2018. The proposal from Yuanlei Chen, Xiaoxue Hou, Siwei Ye and Shuang Yu, entitled “How Gas Stations Will Cope with Future Transportation and Fuels Market,” focused on ride-sharing and using retail stores as distribution centers for online shopping. FUELS2018 attendees chose the winners of the competition—Fuels Retailing in 2040—which asked undergrad and graduate students to establish a timeline of the light-duty vehicle fueling infrastructure in the United States through 2040.
Student abstracts from 15 schools were considered, but three finalists were chosen to present their ideas to conference attendees based on the proposal’s most viable and economical solution. All three submissions from the finalists and two honorable mention submissions are available online for viewing.
Second place went to Carnegie Mellon University for its “Future Landscape of Fuel Retailing—Thinking Beyond the Conventional” proposal, and the third-place prize of $1,000 went to a combined team of students from Cornell University, University of Houston and Carnegie Mellon for its “Strategic Planning of a U.S. Fuel Retailer’s Light-Duty Fueling Infrastructure through 2040” proposal.
Honorable mentions were “Incorporating Battery-Swap Service into Fuel Retailing Business through B2B Model” from Johns Hopkins University and “Fuel Retailing in 2040: A Choice Rather than a Need” from Duke University.
