About one-third of all the energy consumed in the United States is burned by transportation vehicles, using 60% of all the petroleum that is consumed. The diversity and complexity of the total stock of transportation vehicles requires that meaningful analyses of conservation options must be based on sophisticated analytical capabilities. This report describes a computer-simulation model of transportation vehicles that provides such an analytical capability. Energy can be saved in transportation in several ways. Each trip that is taken could be made more efficient, which would generally lower the total number of trips taken. Trips that are of marginal usefulness can simply be eliminated. Finally, the fuel-consumption characteristics of the vehicles themselves can be altered to make them more efficient. The Transportation Energy Conservation Model provides a capability for analyzing the effects of altering the fuel efficiencies of the various transport vehicles, and allows some capability for analyzing the effects of changes in the level of use. (ERA citation 05:013763)


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    Title :

    TEC Model: Transportation Energy Conservation Model. Final Report


    Publication date :

    1978


    Size :

    167 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English