Input Guidelines for Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator Model, Volume 3: Final Report

This document is the Final Report for NCHRP Project 25-38, Input Guidelines for Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator Model (MOVES). The objective of NCHRP Project 25-38 is to produce guidelines for transportation practitioners on methods, procedures, and datasets needed to develop and obtain transportation-related regional- and project-level inputs for using MOVES to estimate emissions of criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gases. The guidelines are intended for all practitioners at state departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and other air quality agencies that are addressing transportation air quality analyses at the regional or project level. MOVES is the required on-road transportation emissions model for regulatory analysis purposes in the United States outside of California, and is the recommended model for nonregulatory purposes. The other major product of this research is a resource document, titled Developing Inputs for the Motor Vehicle Emissions Simulator Model: Practitioners’ Handbook, that provides information for practitioners on how to develop local inputs for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s MOVES model. Four tools, along with supporting documentation (MOVES Tool Documentation), were also developed to assist MOVES users in developing specific inputs. This Final Report documents the research process for developing the Practitioners’ Handbook and tools, and provides additional documentation not included in the handbook.