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Signature Project Support: Emissions, Rural Travel Behavior and Efficiency

项目名称：	Signature Project Support: Emissions, Rural Travel Behavior and Efficiency
摘要：	This grant supports several distinct activities which are part of the University Transportation Center (UTC) Signature research projects at the University of Vermont. New tasks had originally been proposed by faculty who left the program. These tasks will be completed by the Aultman-Hall team. For second by second driving style and emissions tasks involve improving the understanding of the interface between traffic simulation models and tailpipe emissions models. For tourism travel demand a modeling framework for tourism travel and/or leisure demand will be defined. The goal is to have a framework appropriate for inclusion in a travel demand model such as the Vermont Department of Transportation (VTrans) statewide planning modeling. The approach should allow output to be sensitive to different energy costs. The team will work with National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) and other travel data to assess travel patterns of rural residents and determine how this impacts the design and operation of more sustainable transportation systems. This may require improvements to the typical measures of travel, as well as the measures of urban/rural landscapes, both of which have been defined to serve metropolitan transportation planning scenarios. This includes measuring how travel and electricity demand overlap spatially given different levels of electric vehicle adoption. This project will include work started to assess the impact of land use patterns on pedestrian volumes as well as creation of a method to estimate total county-wide pedestrian miles of travel.
状态：	Completed
资金：	180000.00
资助组织：	Research and Innovative Technology Administration
项目负责人：	Troy, Austin；Aultman-Hall, Lisa
执行机构：	UVM Transportation Center
开始时间：	20110701
实际结束时间：	20140630
主题领域：	Energy；Pedestrians and Bicyclists；Planning and Forecasting；I15: Environment