Traffic patterns and daily variability of motor vehicles emissions during the 1995 SOS Nashville/Middle Tennessee Ozone Field Study

Conference · Tue Dec 31 04:00:00 EST 1996

OSTI ID:617977

Cardelino, C; Chang, Wen-Ling; Chang, M E ^[1]

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1. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)

This work describes traffic patterns and the daily variability of mobile sources in rural and urban areas in and around the Nashville Metropolitan Area. Traffic counter data, video recordings and speed data collected during the 1995 SOS Nashville/Middle Tennessee Ozone Field Study are used to analyzed the spatial and temporal distribution of traffic volume, vehicle speed, and vehicle classification. Using traffic volume as a surrogate for mobile emissions, a simple method is employed to characterize the daily variability of emissions on the different types of urban and rural roads. The method is also used to describe the daily variability of mobile emissions for the whole modeling domain. Implications of this work for the improvements of mobile emission inventories are discussed.

• OSTI ID: 617977
• Report Number(s): CONF-9609223--
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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02 PETROLEUM
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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CARBON MONOXIDE
COMBUSTION PRODUCTS
COMPLIANCE
DAILY VARIATIONS
EXHAUST GASES
NITROGEN OXIDES
RURAL AREAS
TENNESSEE
URBAN AREAS
VEHICLES