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Title:

TRAVELER INFORMATION PROVISION FOR INCIDENT MANAGEMENT: IMPLICATIONS FOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS

Accession Number:

00985990

Record Type:

Component

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Abstract:

The potential of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in alleviating nonrecurring traffic congestion was assessed, and then the resulting implications for vehicle-induced emissions in a congested city in a developing country were estimated. This work provides a blueprint for future studies on both the evaluation of ITS deployment through dynamic traffic modeling and the assessment of resulting changes in travel times and emissions. The Greater Beirut, Lebanon, area road network was used as the test bed for evaluating strategies for incident management, which was the selected ITS application for this study. A series of simulation scenarios was conducted with dynamic traffic-simulation-assignment methodology, and resulting emissions were estimated with an emission-factor model. These scenarios were used to evaluate the effect of different ITS deployment parameters--such as type of information provision (pretrip and in-vehicle) and driver compliance--on network performance and resulting emissions. Network performance measures such as travel and stop times were developed, and corresponding vehicle emissions were estimated with carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, and total organic carbon as indicators for each scenario.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1886, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicle-Highway Automation 2004.

Monograph Accession #:

00985982

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kaysi, I
Chazbek, C
El-Fadel, M

Pagination:

p. 59-67

Publication Date:

2004

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1886
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

030909481X

Features:

Figures (5) ; References (20) ; Tables (4)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Total organic carbon

Geographic Terms:

Beirut (Lebanon)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 18 2005 12:00AM

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