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Title:

Modeling Light Duty Vehicle Emissions Exploiting VT-CPFM Fuel Estimates

Accession Number:

01589744

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The Virginia Tech Comprehensive Power-based Fuel consumption Model (VT-CPFM) is a power-based model that overcomes the limitations of state-of-the-practice models, namely: they produce a bang-bang control system and cannot be calibrated using publicly available data. This paper extends the VT-CPFM model to estimate vehicle emissions of hydrocarbons (HC), carbon monoxide (CO), carbon dioxide (CO₂) and oxides of nitrogen (NOₓ) using the estimated fuel consumption level as the sole explanatory variable. The quality of fit for the HC and CO was good with a coefficient of determination exceeding 0.89 on average; however the quality of fit for NOₓ emissions was lower with a coefficient of determination of 0.73 on average. The proposed emission model produces slightly lower fits compared to the VT-Micro model, however, with a reduction in the number of parameters from 32 to 3 parameters.

Monograph Accession #:

01584066

Report/Paper Numbers:

16-2448

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Pagination:

13p

Publication Date:

2016

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 95th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2016-1-10 to 2016-1-14
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Energy; Environment; Highways; I15: Environment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2016 Paper #16-2448

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 29 2016 12:47PM