Traffic data in air quality modeling: a review of key variables, improvements in results, open problems and challenges in current research

JA Pinto, P Kumar, MF Alonso, WL Andreão… - Atmospheric Pollution …, 2020 - Elsevier
Outdoor air pollution was responsible for approximately 4.2 million deaths around the world
in 2016, with the emissions from road vehicles being the main source of air pollution in …

A review of fundamental drivers governing the emissions, dispersion and exposure to vehicle-emitted nanoparticles at signalised traffic intersections

A Goel, P Kumar - Atmospheric Environment, 2014 - Elsevier
Signalised traffic intersections (TIs) are considered as pollution hot-spots in urban areas, but
the knowledge of fundamental drivers governing emission, dispersion and exposure to …

Multiagent reinforcement learning for integrated network of adaptive traffic signal controllers (MARLIN-ATSC): methodology and large-scale application on downtown …

S El-Tantawy, B Abdulhai… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Population is steadily increasing worldwide, resulting in intractable traffic congestion in
dense urban areas. Adaptive traffic signal control (ATSC) has shown strong potential to …

Energy and emissions impacts of a freeway-based dynamic eco-driving system

M Barth, K Boriboonsomsin - … Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 2009 - Elsevier
Surface transportation consumes a vast quantity of fuel and accounts for about a third of the
US CO2 emissions. In addition to the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles and carbon-neutral …

Estimating vehicle fuel consumption and emissions based on instantaneous speed and acceleration levels

K Ahn, H Rakha, A Trani… - Journal of transportation …, 2002 - ascelibrary.org
Several hybrid regression models that predict hot stabilized vehicle fuel consumption and
emission rates for light-duty vehicles and light-duty trucks are presented in this paper. Key …

Real-world carbon dioxide impacts of traffic congestion

M Barth, K Boriboonsomsin - Transportation research record, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Transportation plays a significant role in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, accounting for
approximately a third of the US inventory. To reduce CO2 emissions in the future …

Eco-driving at signalized intersections using V2I communication

H Rakha, RK Kamalanathsharma - 2011 14th international …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The research presented in this paper develops a framework to enhance vehicle fuel
consumption efficiency while approaching a signalized intersection through the provision of …

Virginia tech comprehensive power-based fuel consumption model: model development and testing

HA Rakha, K Ahn, K Moran, B Saerens… - … Research Part D …, 2011 - Elsevier
Existing automobile fuel consumption and emission models suffer from two major
drawbacks; they produce a bang–bang control through the use of a linear power model and …

Evaluating effects of traffic and vehicle characteristics on vehicular emissions near traffic intersections

S Pandian, S Gokhale, AK Ghoshal - Transportation Research Part D …, 2009 - Elsevier
Urban air quality is generally poor at traffic intersections due to variations in vehicles' speeds
as they approach and leave. This paper examines the effect of traffic, vehicle and road …

Development of a heavy-duty diesel modal emissions and fuel consumption model

M Barth, T Younglove, G Scora - 2005 - escholarship.org
There have been significant improvements in recent years in transportation and emissions
modeling, in order to better evaluate transportation operational effects and associated …