Author(s)

A. G. Hobeika

Abstract

The estimation and control of vehicle emissions play an important role in the sustainable development of an urban area. Many studies have shown that without a balance between vehicle usage and vehicle emissions, urban areas will never be able to reach a sustainable development. However, for planning purposes professionals have struggled with the proper modeling and estimation of vehicle emissions in an urban area. The focus of this paper is to present a new modeling procedure for estimating vehicle emissions based on individual vehicle interactions in a traffic stream. The model microsimulates these interactions and then translates them into consequent energy consumption and pollutant emissions. The main feature of this model is that it calculates the effects of transient changes in power on vehicle emissions. It divides power into 34 bins and speed into

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