Estimating public transport emissions from General Transit Feed Specification data

Authors

João Pedro Bazzo Vieira
Rafael H.M. Pereira
Pedro R. Andrade

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Date

2023

Subject Area

place - europe, place - north america, place - south america, place - urban, technology - emissions, technology - geographic information systems

Keywords

Public transport, emissions, General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data

Abstract

This paper introduces the gtfs2emis model, a bottom-up method available as an R package to estimate emissions of public transport systems. The method uses General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data, a standard format for public transport data widely adopted worldwide, which makes the method easily applicable to cities with limited data. The model requires a GTFS feed of a given transport system and a table with general characteristics of the vehicle fleet profile. The package can estimate over 16 pollutants and energy consumption based on emission factor models from Europe, the United States, and Brazil. It also includes functions to help users examine how emissions are distributed across space, at different times of the day, and by types of vehicles. This paper presents a reproducible example of the city of São Paulo (Brazil) to demonstrate the gtfs2emis package and to discuss the potential applications and limitations of the proposed model.

Rights

Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Vieira, J. P. B., Pereira, R. H., & Andrade, P. R. (2023). Estimating public transport emissions from General Transit Feed Specification data. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, 119, 103757.