MOVES-Matrix 4.0 for High-performance On-road Energy and Running Emission Rate Modeling
The MOVES model, developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA), assesses emissions and energy use from on-road mobile sources and nonroad sources in the United States. Integrating high-resolution on-road vehicle activity data with appropriate MOVES emission rates facilitates the assessment of the environmental impacts of transportation design and operation strategies. However, the MOVES interface is complicated and the number of required individual model runs make it difficult to assess regional transportation networks and to undertake dynamic analyses of large-scale systems. In prior research efforts, this NCST research team developed MOVES-Matrix 2014b and MOVES-Matrix 3.0, by iterating the MOVES model through the comprehensive sets of potential input variables. Users can query energy use and emissions rates for any modeling scenario from the MOVES-Matrix 9-billion-cell matrix, without ever having to run the MOVES model. This allows analyses to execute about 200x faster than using MOVES directly. In the first stage of MOVES-Matrix 4.0 development, the team will develop MOVES4 energy use and emission rates by running MOVES4 146,853 times on the clusters to populate matrices for Atlanta region model runs (combination of fuel specification and inspection and maintenance program). In this project, the team is adapting MOVES 4.0 for cross-platform use on PACE supercomputing clusters (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0, RHEL) without requiring root access by manually configuring MOVES 4.0 and its dependencies (e.g., MariaDB, Java, and Go) in a user-space, self-contained setup and extracted the emission and energy rate outputs of Atlanta, GA (Fulton County). As with prior versions of MOVES-Matrix, the team will perform a synthetic case study of these emission and energy use rates to verify that MOVES-Matrix replicates the exact same results as using MOVES directly (to ensure validity for use in regulatory analysis). In this first-year effort, the team will develop emission and energy use rate matrices to the state of Georgia, expanding to include Texas and Vermont in the fall.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $120000
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Contract Numbers:
DOT 69A3552348319
DOT 69A3552344814
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590National Center for Sustainable Transportation
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA United StatesGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA United States 30332-0355 -
Managing Organizations:
National Center for Sustainable Transportation
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA United StatesUniversity of California, Davis
1 Shields Ave
Davis, California United States 95616Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA United States 30332-0355 -
Project Managers:
Iacobucci, Lauren
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Performing Organizations:
National Center for Sustainable Transportation
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA United StatesGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
790 Atlantic Drive
Atlanta, GA United States 30332-0355 -
Principal Investigators:
Guensler, Randall
Rodgers, Michael
Guin, Angshuman
Lu, Hongyu
- Start Date: 20240201
- Expected Completion Date: 20250131
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Data analysis; Data collection; Energy consumption; Exhaust gases; Information processing; Mathematical models; Mobile sources; Pollutants
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Energy; Environment; Highways;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01915526
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
- Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3552348319, DOT 69A3552344814
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Apr 18 2024 4:01PM