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Investigating Private Motorised Travel and Vehicle Fleet Efficiency: Using New Data and Methods to Reveal Socio‐Spatial Patterns in B risbane, A ustralia
Author(s) -
LI TIEBEI,
SIPE NEIL,
DODSON JAGO
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
geographical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.695
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-5871
pISSN - 1745-5863
DOI - 10.1111/1745-5871.12001
Subject(s) - transport engineering , fuel efficiency , energy consumption , consumption (sociology) , disadvantage , car ownership , work (physics) , efficient energy use , kilometer , business , geography , environmental economics , engineering , automotive engineering , public transport , computer science , economics , mechanical engineering , social science , electrical engineering , artificial intelligence , sociology
A ustralian cities have seen continued long‐term growth in private motor vehicle travel that has imposed increasing vehicle energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper investigates the spatial patterns of vehicle energy consumption on urban areas through an analysis of vehicle travel and of vehicle fleet efficiency in B risbane, A ustralia. This is achieved by combining motor vehicle registration records and A ustralian government's ‘ G reen V ehicle G uide’ of vehicle fuel efficiency database. The results of a spatial analysis of the private vehicle trip distances derived from journey to work data and fuel energy consumption associated with the private‐owned vehicles decomposed to local areas show that private vehicle energy use tends to increase with increasing distance from the city centre (e.g. central business district). This analysis demonstrates that differences in vehicle trip distances and lower proportions of high‐efficiency vehicles in the outer suburbs aggravate vehicle energy consumption in those locations. The paper further compares vehicle energy use results for B risbane against spatial patterns of suburban socio‐economic disadvantage. The paper demonstrates that access to vehicle fleet technology may compound other forms of socio‐economic disadvantage and vulnerability.