Model Factsheets
| Name | Transport energy, economics and environment model |
| Acronym | TE3 model |
| Methodical Focus | None |
| Institution(s) | KIT |
| Author(s) (institution, working field, active time period) | Jonathan Gómez Vilchez |
| Current contact person | Alexandra Märtz |
| Contact (e-mail) | alexandra.maertz@kit.edu |
| Website | http://te3modelling.eu/index.php/model |
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| Primary Purpose | Model-based policy-making support in the context of oil demand reduction and GHG mitigation from car travel. This tool explores key impacts of future car technology market developments and provides an international perspective. |
| Primary Outputs | Development of 9 types of car technologies (gasoline, diesel, flex-fuel, LPG, natural gas, hybrid, plug-in hybrid, battery electric, fuel cell) in 6 countries (China, France, Germany, India, Japan, US) looking at 3 types of GHG emissions (CH4, CO2, N2O ) until 2030 (2050); Output are e.g. Aggregate car stock, Market share by car technology, Car usage, Energy use from car travel (disaggregated by type of fuel), GHG emissions from car travel (disaggregated by type of technology) " |
| Support / Community / Forum | |
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| Link to User Documentation | Doctoral thesis of author |
| Link to Developer/Code Documentation | full code available under sdm-doc |
| Documentation quality | good |
| Source of funding | Helmholtz association |
| Number of developers | less than 10 |
| Number of users | less than 10 |
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| Planned to open up in the future | |
| Costs | - |
| Modelling software | Vensim |
| Internal data processing software | Excel |
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| Modeled technologies: components for power generation or conversion |
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| Modeled technologies: components for transfer, infrastructure or grid |
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| Modeled technologies: components for storage |
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| Time resolution | annual | ||||||
| Comment on geographic (spatial) resolution | The model includes the main car markets, i.e. China, US, Japan, India, France and Germany | ||||||
| Observation period | >1 year | ||||||
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| Model class (optimisation) | - |
| Model class (simulation) | System Dynamics |
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| Mathematical objective | CO2, Car Technology share |
| Approach to uncertainty | Deterministic |
| Suited for many scenarios / monte-carlo | |
| typical computation time | less than a minute |
| Typical computation hardware | - |
| Technical data anchored in the model | - |
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| Model file format | Other |
| Input data file format | .xls |
| Output data file format | .xls |
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| Citation reference | Gómez Vilchez, J. 2016. Car technologies and their impact on climate - A system dynamics approach. 14th World Conference on Transport Research (WCTR) / Gómez Vilchez, J., Jochem, P., Fichtner, W. 2016. Car Technology Market Evolution and Emissions Impacts - An Example of Energy Policy Scenarios under Uncertainty. In: Proceedings of the 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (SDS) / Gómez Vilchez, J., Jochem, P., Fichtner, W., 2015. Energy Use and Emissions Impacts from Car Technologies Market Scenarios: A Multi-Country System Dynamics Model. In: Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (SDS) / Gómez Vilchez, J., Jochem, P., Fichtner, W., 2014. Car Technology Scenarios using System Dynamics: Exploring Market Penetration and Energy Consumption in China, Germany and US. In: Proceedings of the Student Chapter of the 32nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (SDS) |
| Citation DOI | - |
| Reference Studies/Models | Kunze, R., Gómez Vilchez, J., Keles, D., Haasz, T., Fahl, U., Fraboulet, D., Coffineau, L., Deane, P., Mulholland, E. 2016. Renewable Energy for Transport, Insight_E Policy Report |
| Example research questions | Market uptake of car technologies; impacts on energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions and policy analysis |
| Model usage | - |
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| Example research questions | Market uptake of car technologies; impacts on energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions and policy analysis |
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| Model specific properties | - |