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Clean Energy Capability Portfolio | Empowering Consumers

Energy-Efficient

Mobility Systems

Exploring the behaviours that influence how individuals and firms make decisions , in an attempt to understand and predict the current and future demand for energy-efficient mobility systems .

Competitive Advantage

• Specialisation in preference elicitation and discrete choice analysis
• Expertise in understanding how different agents will engage with new technologies and services
• High-level skills in the measuring the impact of informational differences on individual preferences
• Significant value-add to both industry and government , through the development and provision of technologies and services that fulfil consumer needs , and the design of supporting policy and regulatory frameworks that maximise societal benefit

Impact

• Understanding and predicting the economic , social and environmental impacts of a current or future policy on the demand for goods or services

Capabilities and Facilities

• A data visualisation lab ( City X Lab )
• Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory ( TRACS Lab )
• A team of experts in choice modelling

Our Collaborators

• Office of Environment and Heritage ( via CRCLCL )
• CSIRO
• U . S . Department of Transportation
• Argonne National Laboratory

More Information

Maria Lee
Centre Manager I Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation ( rCITI )
T : + 61 2 9385 5721

Successful Applications

E : maria . lee @ unsw . edu . au
• Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living ( CRCLCL ) project with the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage to evaluate the market share for electric vehicles , and understand consumer attitudes , opinions , and preferences for electric vehicles and charging stations
• An international project with the Argonne National Laboratory ( USA ) to study autonomous vehicles and their impact on the transport system
• UNSW Digital Grid Future Grant for studying the market update of EVs equipped with photovoltaic panels

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