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Sincere thanks to the Royal Society of New Zealand, Canterbury Branch for the travel award granted to me in order to attend this conference. It provided an exclusive platform for scientists, industrialists and decision-makers to discuss the topics in applied energy including energy strategies and policies.

It was pleasure to have a chance to give an oral presentation in the conference under the topic of Travel behaviour under fuel constraint study. The topic is related to the conference in the term of a novel survey tool (TACA Sim©) developed by AEMS Lab to collect data on travel demand and adaptability during fuel price increase. The proposed method is based on a role-playing game concept to immerse the participant into the situation of high fuel price while collecting the data. The tool additionally provides feedback information based on the concept that all human beings have the responsibility to inform themselves and evaluate their past and current actions for future planning. Therefore, TACA Sim collects not only travel behaviour data, but also provides the travel behaviour information and adaptation risk for self-evaluation in order to help individuals realise sustainable lifestyles.

This conference has given me a platform to promote my research, our laboratory, and University of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was a good opportunity for me to share the idea with international scientists and industrialists. The interesting and helpful suggestions from many experts have been beneficial to my research. The comments at the end of the presentation prompted me to consider the point I missed in my work. From going overseas, I learned not only the new academic aspects, but also the different cultures that I exchanged to others. Thanks to the Canterbury Branch of the Royal Society once again for giving me this valuable opportunity.