Analytical Tools for Measuring Emissions Impacts of Acceleration and Deceleration
Air quality has become one of the important factors to be considered in making transportation improvement decisions. Thus, tools are expected to help such decision-making. On the other hand, MOBILE5 model, which has been widely used in evaluating air quality improvement, become helpless when the transportation improvements are sensitive to factors such as acceleration/deceleration, grade, etc. which are not modeled in MOBILE5 model. For example, improvement can be made to reduce the grade of a ramp, thus reduce high acceleration and deceleration.