Lumina has developed ATEAM (the Analytica Transportation Energy Assessment Model) to allow flexible exploration of these challenging issues. It represents a wide range of technologies, and projects how a reduction in costs and increase in availability of new fuels and technologies can lead to increasing market penetration.
It models cars, light trucks, SUVs, and heavy-duty vehicles. It is designed for rapid exploration of alternative scenarios, to understand key sensitivities and points of leverage. ATEAM is being used to investigate the capacity to reduce GHG emissions and oil imports and save costs of transportation.
We explore various alternative fuel vehicle technologies including flexible fuel vehicles, electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, CNG/LNG, or simple improvements to ICE efficiency.
The model simulates the interaction between the policy decisions such as the renewable fuel standard (RFS), low-carbon fuel standard, CAFÉ (fleet efficiency), tax credits and incentives by technology, biofuel credits and tariffs, or a carbon tax.
ATEAM offers a highly interactive, transparent and intuitive user-interface which allows users to extend the set of vehicle-level variables (propulsion engine, fuel type, weight, size), adjust key assumptions, and conduct rapid scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis and uncertainty analysis.
It displays visual influence diagrams that allow users to explore the details of the model, as shown below.