Transit Vehicle Emissions Program, Final Report

Details

• Creators:
  Wayne, W. Scott
• Corporate Creators:
  West Virginia University. Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Fuel conservation
  • Bus transit
  • Emissions testing
  • Life cycle costing
  • Vehicle fleets
  • Alternate fuels
  • Databases
  • Research reports
  • Infrastructure
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FTA Report No. 0048
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1503543
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Research, Demonstration, and Innovation
• Abstract:
  The evaluation, selection, and implementation of fuel and powertrain technology choices are critically important to accomplishing the mission of providing safe, efficient, reliable, environmentally-conscious, and cost-effective public transportation. Vehicle procurement decisions evolve to be a difficult compromise between economic, environmental, and operability requirements. West Virginia University conducted a research program to provide the transit industry with resources to assist transit agency managers to evaluate a low-emissions, fuel-efficient option in vehicle procurement and planning activities to encourage the design, production, and use of environmentally-friendly transit buses. This report summarizes technical assistance provided to the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and the Larsen Pennsylvania Transportation Institute to establish an emissions testing program as part of the Altoona Bus Testing Center. The report also summarizes the development of a searchable database of transit bus emissions data, a transit fleet emissions model, and a transit vehicle live cycle cost model.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  WV-26-7008-01
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/29229/dot_29229_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 13.30 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Transit Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:87e15920d6d758bf80fb08613d19c0db7f5460bb0491cd66c7e5479ffa4a4120