AMITRAN - Assessment Methodologies for ICT in Multimodal Transport from User Behaviour to CO2 reduction
Overview
Background & policy context:
Earlier studies indicate possible CO2 reductions of up to 25% with certain ICT measures. AMITRAN provides the methodology and tools to assess such reductions on European level in a systematic and realistic way. This will support developers, public authorities and investors in ICT solutions to make sound decisions based on reliable impact estimates, covering the complete transport chain. The top of EU transport R&D institutes have bundled forces to cooperate in AMITRAN. There will be cooperation with recent and ongoing EU projects where ICT applications and tools are developed which potentially contribute to CO2 reduction. As active participants in those projects, the AMITRAN project partners will ensure direct liaison with these projects.
Objectives:
The AMITRAN project will develop a framework for the evaluation of the effects of ICT measures in traffic and transport on energy efficiency and CO2 emissions. By doing so, it will contribute to the development of ICT solutions that allow more efficient multimodal goods transport and passenger mobility.
Methodology:
Methodological steps:
- Develop a CO2 assessment methodology for ICT measures that includes multimodal passenger and freight transport and takes into account the whole chain of effects (from user behaviour to CO2 production);
- Design open interfaces for models and simulation tools implementing the project’s methodology;
- Establish a generic scaling up methodology and publicly available database with statistics to translate local effects into the European level;
- Validate the proposed methodology and its implementation using data available from other projects or studies;
- Produce an online checklist and a handbook that can be used as a reference by future projects.
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