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Integrated Framework to Capture the Interdependencies Between Transportation and Energy Sectors Due to Policy Decisions
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2014-05-01
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Abstract:Currently, transportation and energy sectors are developed, managed, and operated independently of
one another. Due to the non-renewable nature of fossil fuels, energy security has evolved into a
strategic goal for the United States. The transportation sector accounts for about 30% of the energy
consumed by the U.S. As the emergent and strategic linkages between the two sectors are becoming
increasingly apparent from a qualitative perspective, there is an evolving consensus that national,
regional, and local policy goals may not be achievable completely or effectively by focusing on one
sector at a time. For example, the increase in the market penetration of electric vehicle has brought
many advantages and challenges along with it on both transportation as well as the energy sector. Such
challenges for transportation sector include reduction of highway maintenance budgets due to a
reduction in gasoline sales, and that for energy sector include increased power demand during specific
times of the day, thereby affecting daily power generation operations. This motivates the need to
develop an analytical framework to capture the interdependencies between these two infrastructure
systems. This study provides a system-of-systems based infrastructure computable general equilibrium
framework for analyzing the interdependencies between the transportation and energy sectors.
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