Estimation of pollutant emissions from traffic using microsimulation models

Abstract

Traditional traffic management methods are mainly focused on travel time optimization, ie minimizing control delay. The modern approach is increasingly emphasizing the minimization of negative impacts of traffic on the environment. Therefore, it is important to enable the evaluation of different traffic management strategies from the aspect of pollutant emissions. Microscopic simulation models enable detailed (second-by-second) representation of traffic flow, which creates a precondition for integration with emission models to enable this aspect of evaluating different management strategies. The paper presents the possibility of integrating the microscopic simulation model VISSIM and the emission model MOVES. It was concluded that this integration enables the comparison of different management strategies from the aspect of emissions of various pollutants.

Keywords

• microscopic traffic models
• emission models
• vissim
• moves