Empirical assessment of route choice impact on emissions over different road types, traffic demands, and driving scenarios

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 271-283

  Bandeira, Jorge M ^a   Carvalho, Dário O ^a   Khattak, Asad J ^b   Rouphail, Nagui M ^c   Fontes, Tânia ^a   Fernandes, Paulo ^a   Pereira, Sérgio R ^a   Coelho, Margarida C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b University of Tennessee   (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; eco routing; emissions; microscope modeling; route choice; vehicle specific power

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; VEHICLES;

CONGESTION; ECO ROUTING; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; NEGATIVE EXTERNALITIES; ROUTE CHOICE; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; VEHICLE DYNAMICS; VEHICLE SPECIFIC POWER;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; EMISSION CONTROL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

EID: 84962599561     PISSN: 15568318     EISSN: 15568334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15568318.2014.901447     Document Type: Article

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