Corporate Average Fuel Economy Compliance and Effects Modeling System Documentation

The Volpe National Transportation Systems 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

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• Record URL:
  • https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/10634
• Corporate Authors:

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, 55 Broadway
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142

  National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Van Schalkwyk, John
  • Gazda, Walter
  • Green, Kevin
  • Pickrell, Don
  • Shaulov, Mark
• Publication Date: 2009-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 123p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer program documentation; Costs; Fuel conservation; Fuel consumption; Pollutants; Standards; Technological innovations
• Identifier Terms: Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE)
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Energy; Environment; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01516515
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT HS 811 112
• Contract Numbers: IAA# HS38A2; Task# FG322
• Files: HSL, NTL, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Feb 28 2014 1:32PM