Traffic Control Measure Impacts on Mode Choice, Energy Use, and Emissions using an Activity Based Modeling Framework and MOVES

Transportation control measures (TCMs) is a general term for a wide variety of strategies designed to improve transportation system efficiency to reduce congestion, energy use, and emissions. A background research effort between 2005 and 2017 reviewed more than 160 potential TCMs for the Metropolitan Atlanta region and divided the strategies into five categories: new vehicle standards, fleet turnover incentives, in-use vehicle controls, demand management, and transportation supply improvement measures. This research will further analyze five promising TCM’s from this framework: Parking pricing in the morning peak period, Doubling transit frequency doubling, Cent/mile congestion pricing, Implementing an increase in the gasoline tax, and Opting-in to California’s low emission vehicle (LEV) program. The Atlanta Regional Commission’s (ARC) activity-based model (ABM) is used to forecast weekday regional travel at the household level. This research will use ARC’s ABM to analyze changes in travel patterns for the five primary strategies across 16 different demographic groups, along with energy use and emissions. It is expected to see the target group’s mode change, energy consumption decrease, and emission decrease when these control measures are implemented. Results from the modeling work will be summarized, changes to the theoretical models employed in ABM15 will be proposed, new model results will be evaluated, and the impacts on energy use and emissions will be reassessed.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Zhao-Dissertation-Project-info-sheet.pdf
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Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $60000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Georgia Transportation Institute University Transportation Center (GTI-UTC)

  Georgia Institute of Technology
  790 Atlantic Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332
• Project Managers:

  lacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Georgia Transportation Institute University Transportation Center (GTI-UTC)

  Georgia Institute of Technology
  790 Atlantic Drive
  Atlanta, GA  United States  30332
• Principal Investigators:

  Yingping, Zhao

• Start Date: 20180401
• Expected Completion Date: 20200930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Activity choices; Congestion pricing; Demographics; Energy consumption; Forecasting; Fuel taxes; Impacts; Metropolitan areas; Mode choice; Parking fees; Pollutants; Regional transportation; Taxes; Travel patterns
• Identifier Terms: Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES)
• Geographic Terms: Atlanta Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01710426
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 28 2019 2:00PM