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This course starts from the challenges and relevance of decarbonizing the mobility sector in the overall energy transition and introduces respective open-source modeling approaches. Focusing on the German case, we analyze challenges of the mobility transformation, embedded within the techno-economic energy transformation in transportation. After an introduction to methods and goals of classical transport planning and transport modeling, various approaches are presented in form of open-source transport models (e.g. quetzal_germany, VencoPy). We further look at potential modeling approaches for policy effects (especially sufficiency/transportation demand policies) and examine exercises under application of various tools in Python and/or Julia. In order to analyze impacts and interplays of the mobility system evolution with the overall energy system, linkages to energy system models are explored and tested. In a subsequent term paper, students will deepen their knowledge throughout the rest of the semester in one of the topics that will be presented.
