Transit Vehicle Emissions Program

The evaluation, selection, and implementation of fuel and powertrain technology choices are critically important to accomplishing the mission of providing safe, efficient, reliable, environmentally-conscious, and cost-effective public transportation. Vehicle procurement decisions evolve to be a difficult compromise between economic, environmental, and operability requirements. West Virginia University conducted a research program to provide the transit industry with resources to assist transit agency managers to evaluate a low-emissions, fuel-efficient option in vehicle procurement and planning activities to encourage the design, production, and use of environmentally-friendly transit buses. This report summarizes technical assistance provided to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Larsen Pennsylvania Transportation Institute to establish an emissions testing program as part of the Altoona Bus Testing Center. The report also summarizes the development of a searchable database of transit bus emissions data, a transit fleet emissions model, and a transit vehicle life cycle cost model.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fta.dot.gov/documents/FTA__Report_No._0048.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29229
• Corporate Authors:

  West Virginia University, Morgantown

  Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, P.O. Box 6106
  Morgantown, WV  United States  26506-6106

  Federal Transit Administration

  Office of Research, Demonstration and Innovation
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Wayne, W Scott
• Publication Date: 2013-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 114p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Databases; Emissions testing; Life cycle costing; Pollutants; Transit buses
• Geographic Terms: Altoona (Pennsylvania)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I15: Environment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01522295
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FTA Report No. 0048
• Contract Numbers: WV-26-7008-01
• Files: NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Apr 22 2014 3:04PM