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Project Code [2010-CCRP-DS-1.3]
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Project title
National Transport Model for Ireland Feasibility Study and Road Map
Primary Funding Agency
Environmental Protection Agency
Co-Funding Organisation(s)
n/a
Lead Organisation
WSP Ireland Ltd
Lead Applicant
Ian Williams
Project Abstract
The requirement for the National Transport Model for Ireland is driven by the need to quantify the range of impacts, particularly energy demand and associated emissions from the transport sector, of alternative economic growth, planning and transport policy. The model needs to be fully multi modal and to consider both personal travel and the movement of goods. By including the relative competition between mechanised modes and walking the impacts of smarter policies on sustainability can be assessed.The model design will ensure the necessary metrics and indicators can be generated from alternative scenarios in order to assess policy impacts in terms of journey distances, times, costs and emissions by mode. The need to represent the underlying causes of major changes in the pattern of travel demand, coupled with the equirements for a comprehensive representation of policy intervention types, imply that the functionality of the model needs a solid behavioural and economic foundation. This implies that the travel demand modules for passengers and freight need adequate segmentation of the drivers of travel demand and need an explicit representation of the processes that can generate the changes in travel demand patterns that have occurred in the past and will arise in the future
Grant Approved
�27,249.00
Research Hub
Climate Change
Research Theme
Socio Economic and Technological Climate Solutions and Transition Management
Initial Projected Completion Date
17/01/2011