Corporate Average Fuel Economy Compliance and Effects Modeling System Documentation

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• Creators:
  Van Schalkwyk, John ; Gazda, Walter ; Green, Kevin ; Pickrell, Don ; Shaulov, Mark
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Standards
  • Fuel consumption
  • Motor vehicles
  • Automobiles
  • Costs
  • Benefits
  • Technological innovations
  • Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards
  • Standards
• Publication/ Report Number:
  DOT-HS-811 112
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Abstract:
  The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) of the United States Department of Transportation's Research and Innovative Technology Administration has developed a modeling system to assist the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the evaluation of potential new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. Based on externally-developed inputs, the modeling system estimates how manufacturers could apply additional fuel-saving technologies in response to new CAFE standards, and estimates how doing so would increase vehicle costs, reduce national fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, and result in other effects and benefits to society. The modeling system can also be used to estimate the stringency at which an attribute-based CAFE standard satisfies various criteria. For example, the system can estimate the stringency that produces a specified average required fuel economy level, or that maximizes net benefits to society.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10634/dot_10634_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.58 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:170bfaaa07090feb0cbbcf07e5e5532ecd6f16041a8be25016bc8f5720f7934a