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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

Start Date

06/09/2010

Initial Projected Completion Date

17/01/2011