Optimizing U.S. Mitigation Strategies for the Light-Duty Transportation Sector: What We Learn from a Bottom-Up Model

Sonia Yeh, Alexander E. Farrell, Richard J Plevin, Alan Sanstad and John Weyant

Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis

Abstract: Few integrated analysis models examine significant U.S. transportation greenhouse gas emission reductions within an integratedenergysystem.Ouranalysis, usingabottom-upMARKet ALocation (MARKAL) model, found that stringent systemwide CO2 reduction targets will be required to achieve significant CO2 reductions from the transportation sector. Mitigating transportation emission reductions can result in significant changes in personal vehicle technologies, increases in vehicle fuel efficiency, and decreases in overall transportation fuel use.Weanalyze policy-oriented mitigation strategies and suggest that mitigation policies should be informed by the transitional nature of technology adoptions and the interactions between the mitigation strategies, and the robustness of mitigation strategies to long-term reduction goals, input assumptions, and policy and social factors. More research is needed to help identify robust policies that will achieve the best outcome in the face of uncertainties.

Keywords: UCD-ITS-RP-08-44; Engineering (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-01-01
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