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Title: MODIFICATION OF QUEWZ MODEL TO ESTIMATE FUEL COSTS AND TAILPIPE EMISSIONS
Accession Number: 00637864
Record Type: Component
Availability: Find a library where document is available Abstract: Traffic congestion created by urban highway construction and rehabilitation activity imposes substantial cost burdens on highway users. In their attempts to quantify and predict such costs, transportation planners have customarily relied on computer models that focus principally on vehicle operating cost and time delay increases. Increasingly, however, planners are recognizing that highway users themselves can inflate system costs--particularly those costs associated with increases in tailpipe emissions. Thus, the challenge to highway planners is to model these effects so that a full range of cost effects can be used at the planning stages of a traffic engineering project. The preliminary results of a study undertaken to modify an existing work zone model--QUEWZ--to report net increases in energy and tailpipe pollution associated with various traffic-handling scenarios within construction zones are given.
Supplemental Notes: This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1395, Finance, Taxation, Pricing, Economic Analysis, Socioeconomics, Education, and Management. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
Monograph Title: Finance, taxation, pricing, economic analysis, socioeconomics, education, and management Monograph Accession #: 01403230
Language: English
Authors: Seshadri, Pattabide Solminihac, Hernan EHarrison, RobertPagination: p. 106-113
Publication Date: 1993
Serial: ISBN: 0309054656
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Energy; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Oct 20 1993 12:00AM
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