Vehicle Mileage

See also: Results View
Result Type: Transport

This results category displays the annual distance traveled (in miles or kilometers) for the vehicles in one or more demand branches.  Results can be shown organized by branch, scenario, year and region (in multi-regional areas).  

Vehicle mileage results are only available for those branches where you are conducting a transport analysis.  To set up a transport analysis, go to the Methodology tab on the Properties screen for each applicable technology branch.

Vehicle mileage is calculated based on the data you specify for the mileage of new vehicles and the mileage degradation profile you specify that describes how annual miles driven decreases as vehicles get older.  These values are processed with LEAP's stock turnover calculations to yield the annual average mileage driven across the whole vehicle stock existing in each year.  Finally, you can also specify a mileage correction factor which is used to adjust the mileage value calculated for the total vehicle stock.  This correction factor can be useful if you wish to create a model that examines driving rebound effects in which the miles driven in ALL vehicles (not just new vehicle) are responsive to certain policy variables such as the cost of gasoline.