The ObjECTS: Framework for Integrated Assessment: Hybrid Modeling of Transportation

Journal Article · Fri Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2006 · The Energy Journal, (Special Issue No. 2 2006):63

DOI:https://doi.org/10.5547/ISSN0195-6574-EJ-VolSI2006-NoSI2-4· OSTI ID:896334

Kim, Son H; Edmonds, James A; Lurz, Joshua; Smith, Steven J; Wise, Marshall A

Technology is a central issue for the global climate change problem, requiring analysis tools that can examine the impact of specific technologies with a long-term, global context. This paper describes the architecture of the ObjECTS-MiniCAM integrated assessment model, which implements a long-term, global model of energy, economy, agriculture, land-use, atmosphere, and climate change in a framework that allows the flexible incorporation of explicit technology detail. We describe the implementation of a ''bottom-up'' representation of the transportation sector as an illustration of this approach, in which the resulting hybrid model is fully integrated, internally consistent and theoretically compatible with the regional and global modeling framework. The analysis of the transportation sector presented here supports and clarifies the need for a comprehensive strategy promoting advanced vehicle technologies and an economy-wide carbon policy to cost-effectively reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector in the long-term.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 896334
• Report Number(s): PNWD-SA-7256
• Journal Information: The Energy Journal, (Special Issue No. 2 2006):63, Journal Name: The Energy Journal, (Special Issue No. 2 2006):63
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
AGRICULTURE
ARCHITECTURE
CARBON
CLIMATES
CLIMATIC CHANGE
IMPLEMENTATION
LAND USE
SIMULATION
TRANSPORTATION SECTOR
hybrid modeling
transportation
integrated assessment modeling