Motor Fuel Consumption model. Twelfth periodical report

Technical Report · Fri Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6470540

This document is the twelfth of a series of periodic reports on the Motor Fuel Consumption (MFC) model developed for the Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Policy Integration, Office of Policy, Planning and Analysis. The MFC model is used by DOE to evaluate the impact of conservation policies on fuel consumption and on the disaggregate components of fuel demand. These components include passenger cars, light-duty trucks, and heavy-duty vehicles. The model is not a forecasting tool in that it does not provide detailed econometrically-based projections of fuel demand. The model is, however, calibrated to current statistics on fuel consumption. fleet size, and travel growth, and to econometric forecasts of new vehicle sales provided by DOE. During the past year (November 1984 to October 1985), the MFC model has been used to evaluate the consumption impacts of a reduction in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for model year (MY) 1986 passenger cars. To facilitate analyses of the potential development and expansion of a market for alcohol fuels in transportation, the model has been reconfigured to include neat methanol, ethanol/gasoline blend, and methanol/gasoline blend components. In addition, as part of an overall effort by the sponsor to transfer DOE analytical models onto micro-computers, a version of the MFC model was developed for operation on an IBM Personal Computer (PC/XT). The purpose of this report is to provide the reader with the most current output of the Motor Fuel Consumption Model and to discuss revisions in the model structure, input data and assumptions which have occurred in the past year. 46 refs., 3 figs., 26 tabs.

• Research Organization: Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc., Arlington, VA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC01-85PE77000
• OSTI ID: 6470540
• Report Number(s): DOE/PE/77000-1; ON: DE86000564
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
320203* -- Energy Conservation
Consumption
& Utilization-- Transportation-- Land & Roadway
AUTOMOTIVE FUELS
DATA
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY CONSUMPTION
FUEL CONSUMPTION
FUEL ECONOMY
FUELS
INFORMATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
NUMERICAL DATA
REGULATIONS
STATISTICAL DATA
STATISTICAL MODELS
THEORETICAL DATA