Project Summary
The tasks for this project will concentrate on: 1) benchmarking the potential impacts of alternative fuel vehicles relative both to the incorporation of the use of such vehicles within the current structure of California residents activity/travel patterns, and 2) further development of the analysis framework to define feasible equilibrium states (both demand and infrastructure) associated with alternative fuel vehicle technologies: - Task 1. Assemble coded activity/travel data from Statewide survey. - Task 2. Analyze individual household activity patterns relative to adjustments that would be required to accommodate alternative fuel vehicle usage. - Task 3. Estimate energy/emissions impacts of activity/travel patterns using alternative fuel vehicles. - Task 4. Reexamine and refine HFCV station “set covering†model relative to the revealed activity/travel patterns of California residents as captured in the Statewide survey. - Task 5. Continue development and refinement of dynamic demand model; examine general properties of equilibrium conditions. - Task 6. Prepare reports documenting: 1) Estimation of energy/emissions impacts of executing existing activity/travel patterns using alternative fuel vehicles, and 2) Refinements made to overall framework used to model alternative futures.
