TASSIM: AN APPLICATION TO LOS ANGELES

The TASSIM model integrates an urban transportation planning model, vehicle emission factors, and simple air diffusion models in a simulation framework that can be used to analyze the air quality effects of transportation policies. This report briefly reviews the structure of the model and then describes how it was applied to the Los Angeles region. The application required the tailoring of certain components of TASSIM to the peculiarities of the Los Angeles area and the calibration of the model to the regional data. The performance of the model in Los Angeles was then compared with previous experience with Boston for the simulation of the air quality effects of policies that alter the emission rates of automobiles, the character of the transportation system, and the pattern of land use.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Supplement to Volume 1, PB-232 933 and Volume 2, PB-232 934.
• Corporate Authors:

  Harvard University

  Cambridge, MA  United States  02138

  Office of the Secretary of Transportation

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Kroch, E
• Publication Date: 1974-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 58 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Alternatives analysis; Fumes; Land use; Mathematical models; Pollutants; Simulation; Transportation; Transportation planning; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation models
• Old TRIS Terms: Traffic fumes; Transportation effects
• Subject Areas: Economics; Operations and Traffic Management; Society; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00082954
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Contract Numbers: DOT-OS-30099
• Files: NTIS, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 8 1981 12:00AM