Integrating a Simplified Emission Estimation Model and Mesoscopic Dynamic Traffic Simulator to Efficiently Evaluate Emission Impacts of Traffic Management Strategies

This paper presents a computationally efficient and theoretically rigorous dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) model and its solution algorithm for a number of emerging emissions and fuel consumption related applications that require both effective microscopic and macroscopic traffic stream representations. The proposed model embeds a set of consistent cross-resolution traffic state representation based on Newell’s simplified kinematic wave and linear car following models. Tightly coupled with a computationally efficient emission estimation package MOVES Lite, a mesoscopic simulation-based dynamic network loading framework is adapted to evaluate traffic dynamics and vehicle emission/fuel consumption impact of different traffic management strategies.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality. Alternate title: Integrating Simplified Emission Estimation Model and Mesoscopic Dynamic Traffic Simulator to Evaluate Emission Impacts of Traffic Management Strategies
• Corporate Authors:

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• Authors:
  • Zhou, Xuesong
  • Lei, Hao
  • Taylor, Jeffrey
  • Liu, Bin
  • Rouphail, Nagui M
  • Frey, H Christopher
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 17p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Dynamic traffic assignment; Estimating; Fuel consumption; Highway traffic control; Mesoscopic traffic flow; Pollutants; Traffic simulation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I15: Environment; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01515452
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-4968
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Feb 24 2014 8:42AM