Integration of modal vehicle emission models with the TRANSIMS traffic simulation module
TRANSIMS is a set of integrated analytical and simulation models and supporting data bases. The TRANSIMS methods deal with individual behavioral units and proceed through several steps to estimate travel. TRANSIMS predicts trips for individual households, residents and vehicles rather than for zonal aggregations of households. TRANSIMS also predicts the movement of individual freight loads. A regional microsimulation executes the generated trips on the transportation network, modeling the individual vehicle interactions and predicting the transportation system performance. The purpose of the TRANSIMS environmental module is to translate traveler behavior into consequent air quality, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide emissions. There are four major tasks required to translate traveler behavior into environmental consequences: (1) estimate the emissions, (2) describe the atmospheric conditions into which the contaminants are emitted, (3) describe the local transport and dispersion, and (4) describe the chemical reactions that occur during transport and dispersion of the contaminants.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- Department of Transportation, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 465869
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-97-1112; CONF-970498-1; ON: DE97005165; TRN: 97:002786
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 7. CRC on-road vehicle mission workshop, San Diego, CA (United States), 9-11 Apr 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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