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Title:

Derivation of Remote Sensing Cut Points for the Screening of High-Emitting Vehicles

Accession Number:

01088606

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Remote sensing devices (RSDs) are considered supplementary tools to enhance existing inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs. Emission compliance is determined by comparing the concentration of pollutants measured by an RSD to on-road remote sensing (RS) emission standards. The literature shows that RS emission standards are insensitive to vehicle speed and acceleration levels even though vehicle emissions are highly affected by the engine load. Consequently, this study firstly demonstrates variability of vehicle exhaust emissions to motivate this study and proposes a procedure for constructing on-road remote sensing emission standards that are sensitive to vehicle speed and acceleration levels. Given the proposed remote sensing cut points, a comparison to the existing cut points is presented as well as sample tests using the proposed cut points. The results of the sample tests demonstrate that the approach is effective for HE (high-emitting) 3 and 4 vehicles of the VT-Micro emission models and requires further enhancements for HE1 and 2 vehicles.

Monograph Accession #:

01084478

Report/Paper Numbers:

08-0747

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Park, Sangjun
Rakha, Hesham Ahmed

Pagination:

19p

Publication Date:

2008

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

DVD

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (18) ; Tables (10)

Uncontrolled Terms:

Subject Areas:

Energy; Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2008 Paper #08-0747

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Jan 29 2008 3:04PM