How much can vehicle emissions be reduced? Exploratory analysis of an upper boundary using an emissions-optimized trip assignment

Transportation Research Record

Volumn , Issue 1815, 2002, Pages 29-37

  Sugawara, Satoshi ^a   Niemeier, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION CONTROL; ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; AUTOMOBILE ENGINES; CARBON MONOXIDE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUEUEING NETWORKS; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

EMISSIONS REDUCTION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

GROUND VEHICLES;

EID: 0036939596     PISSN: 03611981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3141/1815-04     Document Type: Article

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