There is an increasing reliance on mobile source emissions analyses as part of the transportation planning process, including regional and hot-spot analyses to fulfill the requirements of the transportation conformity rule and project-level highway air quality assessments in response to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act. The general procedure of an emissions analysis is to employ the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's MOBILE6.2 model to obtain on-road mobile source emission factors, and multiply by the vehicle miles of travel to construct emission inventories. Critical to the outcome of such studies are future predictions of vehicle activity. This is especially true in evaluating transportation alternatives to assess how well a proposed project may or may not mitigate vehicle congestion and reduce emissions. This paper investigates one aspect of vehicle congestion and emissions forecasting by applying different vehicle speed estimating methodologies used for sketch planning purposes and shows the variability of MOBILE6.2 emission factors as a function of travel demand and the associated capacity (i.e., volume-to-capacity ratio).


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    Title :

    Variability of Vehicle Emissions and Congestion Forecasting


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    Transportation Land Use, Planning, and Air Quality Congress 2007 ; 2007 ; Orlando, Florida, United States



    Publication date :

    2008-05-15




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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