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The selection of commercial office sites that potentially minimize energy consumption associated with requisite journey-to-work trips represents a unique opportunity for addressing energy security and environmental concerns. The research and practice literature indicates a link between commercial office site location and transportation energy consumption, although no performance-based evaluation framework currently exists. This paper presents the development of a calculation framework designed for estimating, under uncertainty, the potential commute energy consumption of commercial office site alternatives. The developed framework identifies the relevant calculation parameters and explores the use of regional travel demand modeling data for estimating spatial variations in commute energy consumption. Such spatial variations are viewed and discussed through application of the framework to the transportation and land-use context of the Atlanta, GA metropolitan region, using stratified travel demand model outputs. The calculation results indicate that spatial patterns of estimated commute energy emerge across urban, suburban, and exurban areas, and that the explicit accounting of input parameter uncertainty supports an evaluation of relative energy-saving probabilities.

01362476

12-0950

English

20p

2012

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Digital/other

Figures; References; Tables

Alternatives analysis; Commuting; Energy consumption; Location; Office buildings; Travel demand

Energy; Highways; Public Transportation; I15: Environment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-0950

TRIS, TRB

Feb 8 2012 4:58PM