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Title:

Developing an Emission Estimation Tool for Border Crossings

Accession Number:

01555379

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

The main objective of the study presented in this paper was to develop a MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES)-based emission estimation tool for border crossing activities. This paper focuses on the methodologies and data used to develop this spreadsheet-based emission estimation tool. The border emissions estimation tool is established as a stand-alone Microsoft Excel® tool. A large scale data collection effort was performed to provide the necessary data for this estimation tool. The data collection plan focused on collecting data on three critical parameters deemed necessary for the emission estimation tool; i.e., vehicle activity data, border crossing fleet composition, and fuel characteristics. The research team executed the data collection plan for two border crossing bridges in El Paso- Juarez Regions. Global Positioning System (GPS) units were used to collect second-by-second speed and location data for a sample of light- and heavy-duty vehicles engaged in the border crossing activity. To obtain information on the vehicle fleet mix for vehicles crossing the border crossing bridges, the research team performed an extensive vehicle license plate data collection at the target border crossing locations. To determine fuel characteristics, a total of 20 gasoline and diesel fuel samples were collected from various gas stations in El Paso and Juarez. An estimation methodology based on MOVES’ operating mode (opMode) bins emission rates was used to develop the tool. In total researchers ran MOVES 2010b for 400 different sets of conditions. The tool combines the calculated operating mode distribution with the emissions rates obtained from MOVES and the user-supplied volume data to generate estimates of emissions for the target scenario.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4906

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Farzaneh, Reza (Mohamadreza)
Fossett, Tyler
Williams, Jon
Gu, Chaoyi
Wood, Nick
Zietsman, Josias

Pagination:

18p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Environment; Highways; I15: Environment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4906

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:38PM