Development of Transportation Air Quality Planning Tool for transportation agencies

State departments of transportation (state DOTs), Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and other relevant authorities have crafted several air quality evaluation tools. One noteworthy observation is that the existing tools for air quality assessment don’t encompass the full spectrum of project types within the CMAQ program. Additionally, these tools were formulated before 2014, rendering their emissions rates and other data incongruent with the more recent 2014 version of the Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) model. To bridge the identified knowledge gap, this project aims to create an Excel-based air quality assessment tool. This tool will enable the computation of emissions ramifications for all eligible transportation project types. The proposed tool will integrate updated parameters and assumptions from the most recent transportation air quality models (such as MOVES) and will incorporate adapted vehicle activity data derived from city-scale microscopic traffic simulations.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $330574
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747117

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility

  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634
• Performing Organizations:

  University of South Carolina, Columbia

  502 Byrnes Building
  Columbia, SC  United States  29208

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Principal Investigators:

  Chen, Yuche

• Start Date: 20231002
• Expected Completion Date: 20240930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air quality; Evaluation and assessment; Pollutants; Strategic planning; Traffic simulation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01907169
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747117
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 6 2024 5:18PM