IVHS and Environmental Impacts: Implications of the Operational Tests. NationalPolicy Conference on Intelligent Operational Tests. National Policy Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems and the Environment. Held in Arlington, Virginia on June 6-

摘要

This paper examines the implications of the operational tests for assessing theenvironmental impacts of IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway System) user services. The contents include a discussion on: The fundamental elements and relationships that must be considered by operational tests in order to evaluate the emissions and fuel consumption impacts of IVHS user services; The scope of IVHS field tests with environmental evaluation objectives in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia; The state-of-the-practice for appraising the environmental impacts of IVHS user services in field settings, including the use of experimental design, data collection, and analytical methods; Results on IVHS environmental impacts available from completed field tests; and The Volpe Centers efforts to develop a guidebook for conducting environmental evaluations within IVHS operational tests.