Using MOVES to Conduct Greenhouse Gas Inventory for On-Road Mobile Sources in Northern New Jersey Region
The North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority (NJTPA) is addressing the challenges of climate change through a series of research activities involving both climate change mitigation and adaptation. NJTPA recently initiated an analysis of the effectiveness of transportation strategy options that would reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from on-road mobile sources. The strategy evaluation approach is built from a MOVES-based GHG emissions baseline inventory. The focus of this paper is to detail the process followed, assumptions made, and emission rates generated for the on-road mobile GHG emissions baseline for the 13 counties in northern New Jersey. The method to estimate the on-road mobile GHG emissions includes running MOVES2010a and making a number of post-MOVES adjustments to account for heavy duty and light duty vehicle efficiency standards not included in the MOVES model. MOVES runs were designed to minimize run time by using the same GHG emission rates for different counties where appropriate and by reducing the number of months included in the runs. The results show a significant impact of vehicle efficiency and emission regulations on running GHG emission rates over time with most of the reduction seen by around 2035. Until MOVES 2013 comes out with the final heavy duty vehicle rule included, it is important to include post-MOVES adjustments to account for this rule in a baseline GHG emissions forecast. It is also helpful to include an alternative baseline forecast that incorporate the effects of the proposed 2017 - 2025 light duty vehicle emission standards.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Kall, David
- Jackson, David
- Perlman, Jeffrey
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
- Date: 2013
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 92nd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Climate change; Forecasting; Greenhouse gases; Heavy duty vehicles; Pollutants
- Identifier Terms: Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES)
- Geographic Terms: New Jersey
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01473966
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 13-4015
- Files: PRP, TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 27 2013 9:22AM