Participants

Models & groups

The following groups and teams, in alphabetical order, have contributed data to at least one iTEM intercomparison.

Some elementary methodology illustrates the diversity of iTEM participants:

• Any model is built for an explicit purpose, which guides model design.
• Models developed by groups over time also embed the evolving knowledge of group members.
• Some groups operate a single model, whereas others operate multiple models representing aspects or parts of the broader transport–energy system.
• Models differ in their coverage:
  • Integrated assessment models (IAMs) represent the entire economy, including non-transportation sectors. These models often represent the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (from transportation and other sectors) on the climate.
  • Transport-focused models may include a stylized representation of the non-transportation sectors, or none at all.
  • Some transport-focused models are embedded in larger modeling frameworks, so include a soft link to (a) complementary economy-wide model(s).
• Models differ in their resolution—the degree of disaggregation along multiple conceptual and physical dimensions.

A core activity of iTEM is to understand how these differences give rise to differing projections of measures that describe the same real-world system.

BP Energy Outlook

• Lead: Robert Spicer.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

Emissions Prediction & Policy Analysis (EPPA)

• Group: MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Global Change.
• Leads: Sergey Paltsev, Paul Natsuo Kishimoto.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

ExxonMobil Outlook for Energy

• Lead: Todd Onderdonk.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

Global Change Assessment Model (GCAM)

• Group: Joint Global Change Research Institute — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy & University of Maryland.
• Lead: G. Page Kyle.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

Global Energy System model (GET)

• Group: Department of Energy & Environment, Chalmers University.
• Leads: Maria Grahn
• Model documentation.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

Global Transportation Roadmap

• Group: International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT).
• Lead: Joshua Miller.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

International Transport Forum

• Group: ITF, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
• Leads: Jari Kauppila, Wei-Shiuen Ng.
• Multiple models.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

International Transportation Energy Demand Determinants (ITEDD)

• Group: Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy.
• Leads: John Maples, David Daniels.
• Part of the World Energy Projection System (WEPS+) framework.
• Model documentation.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

MESSAGE

• Group: Energy Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
• Lead: David McCollum.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

Mobility Model (MoMo)

• Group: International Energy Agency (IEA).
• Lead: Pierpaolo Cazzola.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 1.

Shell Scenarios

• Lead: Martin Haigh.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

Statoil Energy Perspectives

• Lead: Tor Kartevold.
• Model website.
• Participant since iTEM 2.

Other participating organizations and individuals

Also in alphabetical order.

• Institute for Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis).
  • Davis, CA, USA.
  • Representative: Lew Fulton.
• IHS Automotive.
  • London, United Kingdom.
  • Representatives: Nigel Griffith, Tiffany Groode.
• King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC).
  • Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
  • Representative: Nicholas Chase.
• The Partnership on Sustainable, Low Carbon Transport (SLoCaT).
  • Representatives: Cornie Huizenga, Sudhir Gota.
• Paul Leiby — Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. Department of Energy.
• Andreas Schäfer — University College London (UCL).
• Stanislav Sobolevsky — New York University (NYU).
• Sonia Yeh — Chalmers University of Technology.

Organizing group

A small sub-group has organized the past iTEM workshops, developed the database and comparison workflow, and maintains this website.

• Sonia Yeh
• Lew Fulton
• David McCollum
• G. Page Kyle
• Paul Natsuo Kishimoto

Contact us at mail@transportenergy.org. Additional contributors are welcome.