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The San Pedro Bay Ports (SPBP) of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Southern California is one of the largest port container complexes in the world, and the largest one is the United States. To decrease the air pollution associated with port operations, a number of measures have been adopted, including the Clean Trucks Program, which was introduced in 2008 to modernizing and clean up the fleet of drayage trucks serving the SPBP. The objective of this paper is to quantify the reduction in emissions attributable to the Clean Trucks Program, with a focus on Nitrogen Oxide (NOx) and Particulate Matter (PM2.5). The authors approach is innovative as it relies on micro-simulation (TransModeler) to capture the link between congestion and pollutant emissions. The authors find that the Clean Trucks Program could contribute significantly to the emissions of NOx (~27%) and PM2.5 (~25%) for all the freeway traffic in the study area. These preliminary results suggest that the Clean Trucks Program is promising, but its cost-effectiveness should be analyzed.

01147878

10-4110

English

16p

2010

Transportation Research Board 89th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures; Maps; References (23) ; Tables (3)

Air quality management; Clean fuels; Container terminals; Environmental impacts; Freight terminals; Pollutants; Port operations; Terminal operations

San Pedro (Los Angeles, California)

Environment; Freight Transportation; Highways; I15: Environment

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2010 Paper #10-4110

TRIS, TRB

Jan 25 2010 12:07PM