CARBON MONOXIDE IMPACTS OF AUTOMATIC VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION APPLIED TO ELECTRONIC VEHICLE TOLLING
Intelligent transportation technologies (ITTs) are being promoted as a means of making vehicle travel "...more enery efficient and environmentally benign (USDOT, 1990)." This paper examines the carbon monoxide (CO) emission impacts of one such applied ITT, name Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI), which is utilized to implement electronic tolling. AVI used in place of conventional toll booths has previously been identified as an ITT that is likely to offer air quality benefits. By allowing vehicles to be tolled either through a windshield displayed debit card, or by some other mechanism, vehicles could forgo the deceleration, stop-delay , and ensuing acceleration that results from an encounter with a conventional toll plaza. These activities have been shown to contribute significantly to the production of emissions from motor vehicles. Results of this study indicate that applications of electronic toll collection in lieu of traditional toll plaza's can bring about significant reductions in carbon monoxide from motor vehicles.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Proceedings of the National Conference on Intelligent Transportation Technologies and the Environment, Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, June 6-7, 1994. Working Paper.
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Corporate Authors:
University of California Transportation Center (UCTC)
University of California, Berkeley
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Authors:
- Washington, S P
- Guensler, R
- Publication Date: 1994-6
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References; Tables;
- Pagination: 10 p.
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automated toll collection; Automatic vehicle identification; Carbon monoxide; Environmental impacts; Environmental protection; Exhaust gases; Impacts; Intelligent transportation systems
- Uncontrolled Terms: Reduction (Decrease)
- Old TRIS Terms: Electronic vehicle tolling
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00722187
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: UCTC No. 297
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 27 1996 12:00AM