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Title: Analysis of Environmental Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles
Accession Number: 01664003
Record Type: Component
Abstract: Among many anticipated benefits, connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are thought to deliver significant environmental benefits from a comparatively smoother driving cycle than conventional vehicles and platooning. These potential environmental benefits include fuel saving and thus reduced greenhouse gas emissions, as well as other mobile source emissions. This study investigates the energy consumption and GHGs at a network scale with a road network in the City of Chicago. Necessary parameters of US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) are modified to represent a CAV’s driving pattern in an all-CAV scenario. The results of the all-CAV scenario are compared with the baseline estimated based on the Chicago regional transportation model. The study found that CAVs lower emissions when applied on a hypothetical traffic network.
Supplemental Notes: This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC70 Standing Committee on Transportation Energy.
Report/Paper Numbers: 18-06770
Language: English
Authors: Pagination: 10p
Publication Date: 2018
Conference:
Transportation Research Board 97th Annual Meeting
Location:
Washington DC, United States Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; References; Tables
TRT Terms: Identifier Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment
Source Data: Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2018 Paper #18-06770
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 8 2018 11:45AM
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