On-Demand Evaluation of Alternative Strategies for Environmental Traffic Management
Across the world, air quality regulations are breached due to localized high pollution episodes, or “hotspots”. Advances in air pollution monitoring techniques enable hotspots to be identified more effectively; however challenges remain as to how best to reduce the incidence and impact of these episodes. Where road traffic is the dominant source of pollutants, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) measures, including alternative traffic management strategies, may be deployed to mitigate the hotspot and contribute towards regulatory compliance. However, the effective evaluation of such ITS measures requires the use of computationally expensive microscopic traffic and emissions models in order to appropriately represent changes in vehicle emission profiles. This paper demonstrates how advances in distributed computing can be combined with the latest generation of traffic and emissions models to provide robust and rapid evaluation of alternative traffic management scenarios.
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Authors:
- North, Robin J
- Hoose, Neil
- Polak, John W
- van Baalen, Janneke
- Cohen, Jeremy
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Conference:
- 16th ITS World Congress and Exhibition on Intelligent Transport Systems and Services
- Location: Stockholm , Sweden
- Date: 2009-9-21 to 2009-9-25
- Publication Date: 2009
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: CD-ROM
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 12p
- Monograph Title: ITS in Daily Life
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality management; Alternatives analysis; Environmental impacts; Environmental monitoring; Exhaust gases; Intelligent transportation systems; Pollutants; Traffic control centers; Traffic surveillance
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01146218
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Dec 15 2009 3:01PM