The development of a prescreening model to identify failed and gross polluting vehicles

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 208-218

  Choo, Sangho ^a   Shafizadeh, Kevan ^c   Niemeier, Deb ^b  

^a Korea Transport Institute (KOTI)   (South Korea)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gross polluting vehicles; High emitter profile; Inspection and maintenance; Multinomial logit model

Indexed keywords

EMISSION CONTROL; FLEET OPERATIONS; INSPECTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

GROSS POLLUTING VEHICLES; HIGH-EMITTER PROFILE; MAINTENANCE TESTING; MULTINOMIAL LOGIT MODEL; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

VEHICLES;

EMISSION CONTROL; MAINTENANCE; REPAIR; SMOG; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

CALIFORNIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33947722207     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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