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Modeling Framework for Estimating Emissions in Large Urban Areas

Alexander SkabardonisView all authors and affiliations
Volume 1587, Issue 1
https://doi.org/10.3141/1587-10

Abstract

A modeling framework has been developed to produce detailed emission inventories for large urban areas. Relationships were developed between the time spent in each driving mode (cruise, acceleration, deceleration, and idle) and basic link characteristics based on simulations of selected real-world surface street networks and freeway sections using the TRAF-NETSIM and INTRAS microscopic models, supplemented by field data. These relationships were then incorporated into a specially written computer program as a postprocessor to the Urban Transportation Planning System type of four-step travel demand models. The integrated model was successfully applied to the 1,120-zone Metropolitan Transportation Commission San Francisco Bay Area network to generate vehicle activity estimates.

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Volume 1587, Issue 1
Pages: 85 - 95
Article first published: January 1997
Issue published: January 1997

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Alexander Skabardonis
Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Calif. 94720-1720
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