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• Children are often overlooked as stakeholder in spatial energy transition planning. • We present a game-based SDSS with appropriate context to collect their input. • A pilot shows it helps children to provide diverse and viable transition plans. • But boundaries and scale of study area should match children's familiarity. The transition to sustainable energy in a neighbourhood is not a trivial process and current efforts attempt to garner support and engagement from local stakeholders through public participation processes. This paper presents a game-based decision support system specifically designed to include a relevant (yet often overlooked) group of stakeholders: the children of an area. Combining the principles of public participation and Geodesign, it supports children to learn about and plan renewable energy technologies in their neighbourhood. A pilot in the South-East district of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, shows that this decision support system can collect relevant input from children. Their plans display a diversity in renewable energy technologies applied and building improvements. Furthermore, an impact analysis demonstrates that the children have learned what buildings were suitable for specific technologies. Maps of the results suggest that selecting an appropriate study location for the children is important, to allow planning at a scale proportional to the local knowledge and planning time. The results provide insights into what type of solutions are preferred, the diversity of the solutions and most important, the solutions are spatially explicit about the participants preferences. This demonstrates that such methods are effective in reaching out to and surveying the preferences of this difficult to reach stakeholder group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Storage Readiness Levels framework communicates site appraisal achieved and activities remaining for operational CO 2 storage • Standardised framework based on experience of researchers, regulators and industry • Framework is applied to 742 saline formation and hydrocarbon field sites and extends industry commercial development classification • Framework enables comparison of levels of investment and duration of appraisal to achieve a permit-ready CO2 storage site. A framework of Storage Readiness Levels (SRLs) is presented to communicate the entirety of technical appraisal, permitting and planning activities achieved at a potential CO 2 storage site and what remains to be completed for CO 2 storage operations. The schema, based on learning gained from the experience of researchers, regulators and industry from the 1990s, is described and assessed by application to 742 saline formation and hydrocarbon field sites, offshore the UK, Norway and The Netherlands. The framework is flexible to accommodate national differences in procedures and practise and the unique character of each site. It is applicable regardless of the time-scale of appraisal or scale of assessment. The framework is consistent with and extends the industry commercial project development classification to include categories for sites with a lesser level of data and evaluation. Application to the phases of appraisal of three sites illustrates that investigations may advance understanding by different pathways and rates. The standardised framework enables comparison of the experience of permitting and planning activities completed within different jurisdictions, the level of investment and the duration required to achieve permitted or permit-ready sites. It is intended that the framework of SRLs should be widely applied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fully Automated Vehicles (AVs) have been widely expected to revolutionise the future travel experience. Recent studies have shown that their impact may also reach beyond the travel episode, and lead their users to alter other activities performed during the day – their daily lifestyles. This study is among the first to empirically investigate the changes that travellers expect in their daily activities with AVs. To this aim, we created an interactive stated activity-travel survey, in which respondents designed their current daily schedule and, following that, redesigned it while imagining that their most frequently used travel mode is replaced with an AV. We administered the survey to 509 commuters in the Netherlands and analysed (changes in) on-board and stationary activity patterns using the multiple discrete-continuous extreme value (MDCEV) model. Results show a clear increase in the prevalence of various on-board activities in the AV compared to current modes, and even stronger increase for the high income and higher educated groups. Changes in stationary activities are less pronounced: no changes in the aggregate, but some changes within particular socio-demographic groups. Specific changes in stationary activities were associated with specific changes in on-board activities for the higher educated respondents: switching to AVs, they were more likely than others to add on-board work, meals, and leisure to their trips and more likely to add a getting ready activity to their stationary schedules. This study contributes to the growing body of literature that recognises and models on-board activities as an integral part of daily schedules. • With an interactive activity-travel survey we collected pre- and post-AV schedules. • Using MDCEV we modelled (changes in) on-board and stationary activity patterns. • On-board activities increase with AVs, and more so with high income and education. • Stationary activities do not change in aggregate, only in some demographic groups. • For the higher educated, changes in stationary and on-board schedules may be related. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]