Development of Local Level Transportation Roadmap Model : A fuel Lifecycle Modelling Approach (FLICEM)

Abstract

The growing urban vehicle traffic presents with an escalating demand for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. There is a need to quantify, project and report current and future emissions to understand the trends and make informed policies to mitigate emissions. Global roadmap models are used to generate national level emission inventories and support policy development, but there are less initiatives taken in the local level modelling approach. This research proposes a new local level roadmap model that accounts for fuel life-cycle emissions at the provincial and municipal level. This research follows a modular based approach where each module processes inventories to capture the impacts of transportation activities in quantification of emissions. The transportation parameters are coupled with vehicle and fuel data to estimate the emissions. The tool calculates fuel life cycle emissions related to the production, transportation, transformation, and distribution of the fuel by vehicle type.