Illustrative Scenarios Tool
The SULTAN (SUstainabLe TrANsport) Illustrative Scenarios Tool has been developed as a high-level calculator (not an in-depth model) to help provide indicative estimates of the possible impacts of policy on transport in the EU (primarily energy use and GHG emissions, also costs, NOx and PM emissions). The purpose of the tool is to allow the quick scoping of a wide range of transport policy options to help get a feel for what scale of action might be required and will also be used as part of the analysis for the final written technical outputs of the project.
A work in progress version of the tool was presented at the project Meeting 6 in Brussels on 15 February – a presentation can be found here, with the first full beta version presented at the final stakeholder event here.
The final version of the tool is freely available for download and use below:
SULTAN lllustrative Scenarios Tool – Final version (zip file - 9.50MB updated 14/06/10)
The zip file contains three MS Excel spreadsheets (in Excel 97-2003 compatible file format):
- the SULTAN Illustrative Scenarios Tool itself;
- a pre-populated Illustrative Scenarios file; and
- the SULTAN Results Viewer to allow the outputs from the tool (generated as a separate file) to be quickly analysed.
A full description of the development, data sources and definition of illustrative scenarios and summary of the results may be found in Project Report VII, which is available for download from the Reports section of this website. This report also includes a basic user guide. Alternatively, a stand-alone version of the user guide is available for download here.
In addition, a pre-generated results file with all the scenario outputs is available for download here (zip file - 7.25MB updated 09/06/10).
The tool has been pre-populated with 20 policy scenarios (plus a number of variants), and offers the option of adding user-generated scenarios.