Are we getting vehicle emissions estimation right?
dc.contributor.author | Grabe, Ruan Johannes | |
dc.contributor.author | Joubert, Johan W. | |
dc.contributor.email | johan.joubert@up.ac.za | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-12-06T13:23:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-12-06T13:23:17Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022-11 | |
dc.description.abstract | Simulation is a valuable prediction tool to evaluate the impact of climate change interventions prior to disruptive implementations that may yield unintended and unwanted consequences. Advances in agent-based simulation allow us to estimate the dynamic emissions produced by vehicles at a fine resolution, with each vehicle modelled individually. The scalability of these models allow decision-makers to evaluate large-scale scenarios. But how good are these models? In this paper, the authors apply a state-of-the-art emissions model in the Multi Agent Transport Simulation (MATSim) framework to simulate individual vehicle emissions. Simulation results are compared with real driving emissions tests, using a portable emissions measurement device on a light and heavy vehicle. Quantifying the gap between macro-level simulation and actual emissions, the paper contributes by showing that pollutants are significantly underestimated, especially for heavy vehicles. This confirms prior micro-scale studies and magnifies the detrimental impact of using uncorrected aggregated models to inform environmental policy affecting transport. | en_US |
dc.description.department | Industrial and Systems Engineering | en_US |
dc.description.librarian | hj2022 | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | The UP as the primary contributor, the Department of Science and Innovation through their Waste RDI Roadmap and the National Research Foundation, South Africa. | en_US |
dc.description.uri | http://www.elsevier.com/locate/trd | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Grabe, R.J. & Joubert, J.W. 2022, 'Are we getting vehicle emissions estimation right?', Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, vol. 112, art. 103477, pp. 1-13, doi : 10.1016/j.trd.2022.103477. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1361-9209 (print) | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1879-2340 (online) | |
dc.identifier.other | 10.1016/j.trd.2022.103477 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/88663 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_US |
dc.rights | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license. | en_US |
dc.subject | Agent-based simulation | en_US |
dc.subject | Portable emissions measurement system (PEMS) | en_US |
dc.subject | Real driving emissions (RDE) | en_US |
dc.title | Are we getting vehicle emissions estimation right? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |