TY - CHAP
T1 - Estimating household travel energy consumption in conjunction with a travel demand forecasting model
AU - Garikapati, Venu M.
AU - You, Daehyun
AU - Zhang, Wenwen
AU - Pendyala, Ram
AU - Guhathakurta, Subhrajit
AU - Brown, Marilyn A.
AU - Dilkina, Bistra
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to the Atlanta Regional Commission for providing the data sets for the travel demand model used in this study. Thanks are also due to the Strategic Energy Institute at the Georgia Institute of Technology, which provided partial funding to support this work. Comments provided by anonymous reviewers are gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This paper presents a methodology for the calculation of the consumption of household travel energy at the level of the traffic analysis zone (TAZ) in conjunction with information that is readily available from a standard four-step travel demand model system. This methodology embeds two algorithms. The first provides a means of allocating non-home-based trips to residential zones that are the source of such trips, whereas the second provides a mechanism for incorporating the effects of household vehicle fleet composition on fuel consumption. The methodology is applied to the greater Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan region in the United States and is found to offer a robust mechanism for calculating the footprint of household travel energy at the level of the individual TAZ; this mechanism makes possible the study of variations in the energy footprint across space. The travel energy footprint is strongly correlated with the density of the built environment, although socioeconomic differences across TAZs also likely contribute to differences in travel energy footprints. The TAZ-level calculator of the footprint of household travel energy can be used to analyze alternative futures and relate differences in the energy footprint to differences in a number of contributing factors and thus enables the design of urban form, formulation of policy interventions, and implementation of awareness campaigns that may produce more-sustainable patterns of energy consumption.
AB - This paper presents a methodology for the calculation of the consumption of household travel energy at the level of the traffic analysis zone (TAZ) in conjunction with information that is readily available from a standard four-step travel demand model system. This methodology embeds two algorithms. The first provides a means of allocating non-home-based trips to residential zones that are the source of such trips, whereas the second provides a mechanism for incorporating the effects of household vehicle fleet composition on fuel consumption. The methodology is applied to the greater Atlanta, Georgia, metropolitan region in the United States and is found to offer a robust mechanism for calculating the footprint of household travel energy at the level of the individual TAZ; this mechanism makes possible the study of variations in the energy footprint across space. The travel energy footprint is strongly correlated with the density of the built environment, although socioeconomic differences across TAZs also likely contribute to differences in travel energy footprints. The TAZ-level calculator of the footprint of household travel energy can be used to analyze alternative futures and relate differences in the energy footprint to differences in a number of contributing factors and thus enables the design of urban form, formulation of policy interventions, and implementation of awareness campaigns that may produce more-sustainable patterns of energy consumption.
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U2 - 10.3141/2668-01
DO - 10.3141/2668-01
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85032835496
VL - 2668
SP - 1
EP - 10
BT - Demand Forecasting, Volume 1
PB - National Research Council
ER -