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Title:

Using National Travel Data in State Energy Master Planning: Gaps and Opportunities in National Transportation Data

Accession Number:

01088551

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Since the oil crises of the 1970s states, cities, and other local governments around the United States have participated in energy planning exercises with the purpose of reducing vulnerability to future crises. In the last decade as climate change has emerged as a major challenge of the 21st Century, state governments are also setting greenhouse gas reduction goals. The transportation sector makes up as much as 29% of total energy consumption in the United States. Individual level travel is arguably the most amorphous sub-set of the transportation sector that is nonetheless responsible for a substantial portion of the sector’s energy use and carbon dioxide emissions. This paper reviews some of the challenges faced by state energy planners to truly understanding the nature of energy use in individual, on-road daily travel behavior. It is imperative for practitioners to have a greater understanding of individuals’ travel choices and behavior, from the levers that guide mode choice, to the type of vehicle chosen, the style of driving practiced, and the rigor of the vehicle’s maintenance. The paper uses the case study of the New Jersey Energy Master Plan to illustrate some of the challenges of designing effective policies aimed at reducing energy consumption in the individual, on-road transportation sector. The paper then suggests that by extending existing national travel surveys, more helpful energy use data may emerge. This may help to focus efforts of avoiding or abating transportation sector emissions, by explicitly linking individual travel behavior and energy use. We demonstrate this approach using the 2001 NHTS.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-1556

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Buehler, Ralph
Lovrien, Nora

Pagination:

27p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

References (25) ; Tables (6)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Travel data

Geographic Terms:

New Jersey

Subject Areas:

Energy; Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-1556

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 3:54PM