NTL Record

Title Analysis of Louisiana vehicular input data for MOBILE 6 : technical summary report.
Record ID 31573
Personal Name
Creator
Wilmot, C. G.
Corporate Creator Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Corporate
Contributor
Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Publisher Louisiana Transportation Research Center
Publication Date 20090100
Language English
Abstract The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 require that non-attainment and air quality maintenance areas regularly conduct regional emissions analyses. In Louisiana, Baton Rouge and Lake Charles are ozone non-attainment areas while New Orleans is an air quality maintenance area. Eleven parishes in the state were non-compliant with respect to air quality at the time of the study, and the number was expected to increase in the future. The metropolitan authorities in the state felt the need to identify the most cost-effective way to conduct these analyses. The standard means of estimating vehicle emissions in metropolitan areas is the use of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) MOBILE model. The most recent version of the model, MOBILE 6, has more comprehensive data input requirements than earlier models. The need thus existed to identify the most efficient and reliable way to obtain the input data for MOBILE 6 applications in metropolitan areas in Louisiana.
Rosap ID dot:5687
Rosap URL https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5687
TRT Terms Exhaust gases; Vehicle miles of travel; Emissions testing; Traffic estimation; Traffic flow; Air quality management
General Subjects Automobiles--Motors--Exhaust gas--Louisiana--Measurement; Traffic estimation--Louisiana; Traffic flow--Louisiana--Measurement; Air quality management--Louisiana--Computer simulation
Classification NTL - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT - Air Quality;
NTL - ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT - Environment Impacts;
NTL - OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS - Traffic Flow
Geographical
Coverage
Louisiana
OCLC 672331068
Report Number 433
Resource type Tech Report
URL https://ntlrepository.blob.core.windows.net/lib/31000/31500/31573/ts_433.pdf
Format PDF
Database NTL Digital Repository