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Alex Bigazzi. Civil engineering undergraduate, senior ( focus on transportation ) Areas of Interest Transp. system sustainability Modeling transp. emissions and diffusion Honor Program – Thesis topic : Carbon Sponsoring for Personal Travel. ‘Greening’ PORTAL.
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Alex Bigazzi • Civil engineering undergraduate, senior (focus on transportation) • Areas of Interest • Transp. system sustainability • Modeling transp. emissions and diffusion • Honor Program – Thesis topic: Carbon Sponsoring for Personal Travel Alex Bigazzi
‘Greening’ PORTAL • Sustainability performance measures for the transportation data archive at PSU • Emissions: currently MOBILE 6.2, will use MOVES • Fuel Consumption • Cost of Delay • Personal Mobility (PHT, PHD, PMT) Alex Bigazzi
ITS Data Aggregation Effects • Errors from temporal aggregation • Data source: disaggregate speeds from loop data • Event: car passes over loop • Error 1: Time resolution • Shock speed Alex Bigazzi
ITS Data Aggregation Effects • Error 2: Parameter distribution • Speed distribution narrows • Underestimate emissions, delay • Travel time errors from using time mean speed • Underestimate delay • Corrected using harmonic mean • Can be estimated w/ variance Alex Bigazzi
CarbonSponsor.org • Framework for individuals to seek direct, voluntary carbon offsets for personal travel • Targets carbon reductions outside of current monetary-based offset programs • Project objectives: • Establish calculation methods for carbon outputs • Develop effective and simple online interface • Analyze initial feedback from pilot users Alex Bigazzi