Integration of MOVES and dynamic traffic assignment models for fine-grained transportation and air quality analyses

Abstract

This paper presents and demonstrates, through a case study, an integrated modeling framework of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new mobile emission model MOVES (Motor Vehicle Emission Simulator) and a simulationbased dynamic traffic assignment (SBDTA) model for projectlevel emissions analyses. Specifically, this research focuses on the methodology and integration process that automates the extraction and conversion of traffic activity data to MOVES' required inputs. The emissions differences between using MOVES default drive schedule and using local specific operating mode distribution inputs are also explored. The integration approach is useful to support transportation conformity analyses required by law in the United States.

Urban transportation emissions mitigation: Coupling high-resolution vehicular emissions and traffic models for traffic signal optimization

“…A review of traffic signal control terminology and formulations are given in Appendix A of Osorio et al (2010) and in Lin et al (2011). In this paper, we consider a fixed-time (also called time of day or pre-timed) control strategy.…”

“…They use the combined model to evaluate the performance of various variable message sign strategies on a hypothetical 14-link network. Lin et al (2011) couple a mesoscopic traffic simulator (DynusT; Chiu et al, 2011) with the microscopic emissions model MOVES in order to evaluate the impact on CO 2 emissions of various congestion management schemes in Sacramento (California, USA). Lee et al (2009) use a microscopic traffic simulator (TransModeler;Caliper, 2008) in combination with both a microscopic emissions model (CMEM; Scora et al, 2006), which is used to estimate CO, CO 2 , HC and NO x , and a macroscopic emissions model (EMFAC; CARB, 2008), which is used to estimate PM.…”

Integrating a simplified emission estimation model and mesoscopic dynamic traffic simulator to efficiently evaluate emission impacts of traffic management strategies

“…However, querying databases to obtain the corresponding emission rate by a specific source bin and operating mode bin is a relatively slow operation compared with direct memory access (on the order of millisecond vs. nanosecond). These software system implementation factors make MOVES a computationally and data intensive model and it has been very difficult to directly link MOVES with a traffic simulation model (Ahn et al, 2002;Lin et al, 2011;Song et al, 2012). This motivated the development of a simplified and lightweight version of MOVES, MOVES Lite .…”

Integration of Environmental Objectives in a System Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model

“…Barth et al (2001) illustrated different validation techniques for mobile source emission models and illustrated the validation of CMEM with MOBILE and EMFAC models. Further, researchers integrated traffic simulators and emission modules to conduct air‐quality analysis (Lin et al, 2011; Hao et al, 2010; Li et al, 2011; Stevanovic et al, 2009).…”