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Modelling Tools

GREET Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation.  Tool to evaluate energy and emission impacts of advanced vehicle technologies and new transportation fuels. It allows to evaluate various vehicle and fuel combinations on a full fuel-cycle/vehicle-cycle basis. Argonne - U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/software/GREET/

TRANS TOOLS is a research project co-funded by the European Commission under the 6th Framework Programme for Research and Development. TRANS-TOOLS aims to produce a European transport network model covering both passengers and freight, as well as intermodal transport, which overcomes the shortcomings of current European transport network models.
http://www.inro.tno.nl/transtools/index.html

TREMOVE is a policy assessment model, designed to study the effects of different transport and environment policies on the emissions of the transport sector. The model estimates for policies as road pricing, public transport pricing, emission standards, subsidies for cleaner cars etc., the transport demand, modal shifts, vehicle stock renewal and scrappage decisions as well as the emissions of air pollutants and the welfare level.
TREMOVE models both passenger and freight transport, and covers the period 1995-2030.
http://www.tremove.org/

EMMOSS Emission model for inland shipping, maritime transport and rail. The emission model Flanders determines emissions caused by railway, inland waterway and seagoing vessels, for transport of people as well as goods on Flemish territory. For seagoing vessels this concerns not only emissions at sea but also in harbor emissions caused by ships maneuvering or at berth, as for Flanders this is a substantial part with important harbors like Gent, Antwerp and Zeebrugge.
http://www.tmleuven.be/project/emmoss/home.htm

CAR (Calculation of Air pollution from Road traffic) is a screening model for the air pollution from road traffic in cities and communities in Flanders. It was developed together with TNO for the Flemish government on the basis of the Dutch Car II model.
http://www.tmleuven.be/project/car/home.htm

CAR II
http://www.infomil.nl

NESCAFF - Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Light-Duty Motor Vehicles, Northeast States Center for a Clean Air Future.
http://bronze.nescaum.org/committees/mobile/rpt040923ghglightduty.pdf

CAFE -Effectiveness and impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards, Committee on Effectiveness and Impact of Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Standards.
http://books.nap.edu/html/cafe/

LEAP, Long range Energy Alternatives Planning System, is a scenario-based energy-environment modeling tool.  Its scenarios are based on comprehensive accounting of how energy is consumed, converted and produced in a given region or economy under a range of alternative assumptions on population, economic development, technology, price and so on.  With its flexible data structures, LEAP allows for analysis as rich in technological specification and end-use detail as the user chooses. 
http://www.energycommunity.org/

GHGenius focuses on the life cycle assessment (LCA) of current and future fuels for transportation applications. It considers a few circumstances where the fuels could be used in stationary applications rather than for transportation.

GHGenius can predict emissions for past, present and future years through to 2050 using historical data or correlations for changes in energy and process parameters with time that are stored in the model.
http://www.ghgenius.ca/

Fuel options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from Motor Vehicles, DOT Center for Climate Change & Environmental Forecasting.
http://climate.volpe.dot.gov/docs/fuel.pdf

Modelling of Advanced Technologies Vehicles, DOT Center for Climate Change & Environmental Forecasting.
http://climate.volpe.dot.gov/docs/atvm_final.pdf

A Sampling of Emissions Analysis Techniques for Transportation Control Measures, U.S. Federal Highway Administration.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaqeat/index.htm

OFFROAD The off-road emissions inventory is an estimate of the population, activity, and emissions estimate of the varied types of off-road equipment. The major categories of engines and vehicles include agricultural, construction, lawn and garden and offroad recreation, and includes equipment from hedge trimmers to cranes. The OFFROAD Model estimates the relative contribution of gasoline, diesel, compressed natural gas, and liquefied petroleum gas powered vehicles to the overall emissions inventory of the state. California Air Resources Board
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msei/msei.htm

GEMIS is a life-cycle analysis program and database for energy, material, and transport systems.
The GEMIS database offers information on fossil fuels, processes for electricity and heat, materials and transports: airplanes, bicycles, buses, cars, pipelines, ships, trains, trucks (for diesel, gasoline, electricity, and biofuels).
http://www.oeko.de

EcoTransIT is a tool to compare the emissions and energy consumption of different transport modes for freight traffic. National variables are also taken into account in the calculations, such as the power generation system. EcoTransIT can be used for Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
http://www.ecotransit.org/english.html

For information on current tools and tools under development contact the secretariat.