Ports Emissions Inventory Guidance: Methodologies for Estimating Port-Related and Goods Movement Mobile Source Emissions

This guidance describes how to develop a mobile source port-related air pollution emissions inventory, which is a quantification of all air emissions of selected pollutants that occur within a designated area by mobile sources for a given time period. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) intends this guidance to help port authorities and other port operators, state and local governments, Tribes, those doing business at ports (such as terminal operators, tenants, and shipping companies), communities, and other stakeholders who want to prepare emission inventories. This guidance describes the data inputs, methods, and analysis approaches available for developing emission inventories of varying levels of detail based on user capacity, available resources, and the intended end use of the inventory. A variety of scales are included, such as project, terminal, sector, port, and regional levels. The guidance is organized as follows: Section 2 describes the purpose and scope of port-related emission inventories; Sections 3 through 8 detail how to develop inventories for the various source sectors at ports: ocean-going vessels, harbor craft, recreational marine, cargo handling equipment, onroad vehicles, and rail. There are also several appendices that include emission factors, detailed methodologies, and other supporting material.

• Record URL:
  • https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=P10102U0.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  Office of Transportation and Air Quality
  1200 Pennsylvania Avenue
  Washington, DC  United States  20460
• Publication Date: 2020-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 233p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cargo handling equipment; Estimating; Freight traffic; Inventory; Methodology; Mobile sources; Motor vehicles; Pollutants; Ports; Railroad transportation; Ships
• Subject Areas: Environment; Freight Transportation; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01762913
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: EPA-420-B-20-046
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 29 2021 4:26PM