A bottom up approach to on-road CO2 emissions estimates: Improved spatial accuracy and applications for regional planning

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2423-2430

  Gately, Conor K ^a   Hutyra, Lucy R ^a   Wing, Ian Sue ^a   Brondfield, Max N ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH; BOTTOM UP APPROACH; CONSUMPTION STATISTICS; DATA LIMITATIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS; EMISSION INVENTORIES; FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; GRID SCALE; HIGHWAY PERFORMANCE MONITORING SYSTEMS; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LOCAL SCALE; ON-ROAD EMISSIONS; POPULATION DENSITIES; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; PROXY VARIABLES; REGIONAL SCALE; ROAD DENSITY; SPATIAL ACCURACY; TRAFFIC DATA; VEHICLE EMISSION;

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGIONAL PLANNING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ROADS AND STREETS;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DATABASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMISSION INVENTORY; LIMIT ANALYSIS; POPULATION DENSITY; REGIONAL PLANNING; ROAD TRANSPORT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; FOSSIL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; POPULATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MASSACHUSETTS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874615985     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es304238v     Document Type: Article

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