IVHS and environmental impacts : implications of the operational tests

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• Creators:
  Little, C. ; Wooster, J.
• Corporate Creators:
  John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (U.S.)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • OPERATIONAL TESTS
  • RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OR R&D
  • ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Joint Program Office for Intelligent Transportation Systems
• Abstract:
  In recent years, public and private sponsors of Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems ; (IVHS) have recognized the need to assess the impacts of IVHS user services on air ; quality and energy use. This interest has been reinforced by the mandates of the Clean ; Air Act Amendments of 1990, the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act ; of 199 1, as well as the desire to strengthen benefit-cost and air quality analyses. ; The IVHS operational tests play a key role in the transition between research and ; development of new technologies and wide-scale deployment of IVHS user services. To ; date, the evaluation plans for most of the field tests have focused on important concerns ; of technical feasibility and user response. However, there remains significant, untapped ; potential for leveraging these tests to evaluate environmental impacts. In particular, ; empirical data gathered from field tests would greatly complement the use of models to ; assess the air quality and energy implications of wide-scale deployment.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/4315/dot_4315_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 630.10 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Volpe Center ; ITSJPO Digital Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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