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Title:

Statistical Evidence of the Impact of Air Quality Control on Vehicle Miles Traveled and Vehicle Ownership from 2001 and 2009 NHTS Data

Accession Number:

01340062

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The air quality conformity rule in the transportation planning process, as well as many other federal, state, and local efforts and funding programs, aim to reduce pollution emissions and attain air quality control goals by reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT), congestion, and fuel consumption in air quality nonattainment/maintenance areas. In this paper, the authors develop multiple regression and discrete choice models to analyze the relationship between air quality nonattainment designation and VMT and vehicle ownership based on data from the 2001 and 2009 National Household Travel Surveys. Results show the VMT reduction effect of air quality nonattainment designation and the associated planning efforts and funding preference ranges from 1.2% to 4.5% at the county level, and the average effect is about 1.6%. In addition, air quality nonattainment designation encourages households to own fewer vehicles and to choose fuel efficient vehicles (e.g. small cars). Additional research is in order to both assess past actions and justify/improve future efforts in reducing VMT and pollution emissions in air quality nonattainment areas.

Monograph Accession #:

01329018

Report/Paper Numbers:

11-4079

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Zhang, Lei
Lu, Yijing
He, Xiang
Ferrari, Nicholas
Krause, Cory
Shen, Qing

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2011

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2011-1-23 to 2011-1-27
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Appendices (1) ; Figures; Maps; References; Tables (7)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Discrete choice models

Subject Areas:

Environment; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-4079

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 17 2011 6:45PM