Trade-offs Between Household and Transportation Energy Consumption in Residential Relocation

Abstract

The aim of this study is to show the importance of the trade-off relationship between household and transportation energy consumption in the evaluation of residential relocation as a measure to reduce energy consumption. The typical scenario of residential relocation that includes moving a household living in detached houses in the suburbs to collective housing in the city center is evaluated using a simulation model with non-elderly and elderly single households in the Sendai metropolitan area. As a result, even if transportation energy consumption is reduced, there is a possibility that household energy consumption after residential relocation will increase, especially in the elderly households.