COMPUTER-BASED RESOURCE ACCOUNTING MODEL FOR AUTOMOBILE TECHNOLOGY IMPACT ASSESSMENT

A computer-implemented resource accounting model has been developed for assessing resource impacts of future automobile technology options. The resources tracked are materials, energy, capital, and labor. The model has been used in support of the Interagency Task Force on Motor Vehicle Goals Beyond 1980. The report describes the methodology. Annual production requirements for up to thirty materials are accumulated. Projected demand is disaggregated among primary and secondary materials, imports and domestic sources. Capital and labor impacts of auto design changes, disaggregated by two-hundred industries are determined using a modified input/output model.

• Corporate Authors:

  Draper (Charles Stark) Laboratory, Incorporated

  555 Technology Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02139

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • DeWolf, J B
  • Davis, C
  • Heinemann, P C
• Publication Date: 1976-10

Media Info

• Pagination: 74 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile industry; Demand; Economic models; Energy; Energy consumption; Financial capital; Information processing; Labor; Labor market; Materials; Mathematical models; Metals; Motor vehicle industry; Motor vehicles; Production; Resource allocation; Scrap metal; Solid waste disposal; Supply; Technology assessment
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Metal scrap; Single hinge shear transfer model; Supply economics
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Highways; Materials; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00159328
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOT-TSC-OST-76-39 Final Rpt., R-938
• Contract Numbers: DOT-TSC-1021
• Files: NTIS, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 2003 12:00AM