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Needed reduction in mobility energy consumption to meet the goal of a 2000-watt society

Scarinci, Riccardo  
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Rast, Frederic
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Bierlaire, Michel  
2017
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice

Greenhouse gas emissions related to energy production is the main cause of climate change. Transportation accounts for 30% of the total energy consumption, and a reduction in the energy used for mobility is necessary. The 2000-watt society is an environmental concept that fixes a sustainable limit to the energy consumption in different sectors, including mobility. This paper evaluates the energy consumption in several mobility scenarios, and it assesses whether the goal suggested by the 2000-watt society is achievable. We investigate the social characteristics and travel habits of the population living in a case study area. Then, we calculate the modal shift induced by transportation policies such as car-sharing, car-pooling and car-free district. We evaluate the resulting energy consumption, and we compare it with the 2000-watt society limit. We conclude that only a set of measures combining car usage reduction, increase in walking and cycling, and reduction in the total travel distance can achieve the needed energy reduction.

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DOI
10.1016/j.tra.2017.05.010
Web of Science ID

WOS:000404702500011

Author(s)
Scarinci, Riccardo  
Rast, Frederic
Bierlaire, Michel  
Date Issued

2017

Publisher

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd

Published in
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Volume

101

Start page

133

End page

148

Subjects

Energy consumption

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Transportation policies

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Sustainable transportation

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2000-watt society

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Car-free

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June 15, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/138463
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