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MOVES3.0.1

Closed Mar 12, 2021 100% complete

MOVES3.0.1 is a patch to MOVES3. It does not change onroad criteria pollutant emission rates in MOVES3 at the county or project level, and it is not considered a new model for State Implementation Plan (SIP) and transportation conformity purposes.

MOVES3.0.1 includes the following updates:

  • Improved default vehicle miles travelled (VMT) for all U.S. count…

MOVES3.0.1 is a patch to MOVES3. It does not change onroad criteria pollutant emission rates in MOVES3 at the county or project level, and it is not considered a new model for State Implementation Plan (SIP) and transportation conformity purposes.

MOVES3.0.1 includes the following updates:

  • Improved default vehicle miles travelled (VMT) for all U.S. counties, with small increases in most counties and large increases for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (see issue #15)
  • Improved default gasoline characteristics for Essex County, New York (see issue #13)
  • Improved installer to address issues when MOVES is installed with Windows 7 (on Windows 7, MOVES will install MariaDB 10.4.12, the last version compatible with Windows 7)
  • Improved error checking to allow source type vehicle population of zero (see issue #12)
  • Added scripts to help check MOVES3 submissions for the 2020 National Emissions Inventory (see docs/NEIQAInstructions.md for more information)
  • Added Ant command to facilitate importing inputs from the command line (see issue #1)
  • Added idle tab to the default scale data manager (see issue #18)
  • Removed processing of irrelevant diesel fuel parameters (see issue #16)
  • Removed incorrect check requiring RoadTypeDistribution inputs at default scale (see issue #2)
  • Removed incorrect “core geography” database check at default scale (see issue #3)
  • Removed petroleum and fossil fuel modeling options, as MOVES3 is not intended to be used for well-to-pump emissions modeling (see issue #14)
  • Fixed problem with annual pre-aggregation that led to “data truncated” errors (see issue #4)
  • Fixed problem with national pre-aggregation that incorrectly weighted meteorology inputs (see issue #9)
  • Fixed problem with state pre-aggregation that incorrectly weighted E-85 fuel properties (see issue #17)
  • Fixed problem that caused “divide by zero” errors in post-processing scripts (see issue #5)
  • Fixed problem with tabbed output post-processing script that led to failures (see issue #8)
  • Fixed problem with county scale XML importer for VMT (see issue #11)
  • Fixed problem that led to “out of range RVP” errors in nonroad diesel-only runs (see issue #6)
  • Fixed problem with nonroad runs for calendar years 2051-2061 that resulted in no output (see issue #10)
  • Fixed problem in nonroad runs that could result in incorrect activity output of average horsepower and load factors for gasoline equipment when fuel subtype is checked (see issue #7)

Compared to the MOVES3 model that posted in November 2020, MOVES3.0.1 will increase activity (VMT) for runs at the default (national) scale that use the default VMT allocations to county, as well as for runs that use nation pre-aggregation. The VMT change will be less than 0.5 percent for counties outside Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, but changes in other vehicle activity (starts, source hours parked, etc.) may be larger. More importantly, modelers using MOVES3 default VMT to model counties in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands will see a very large increase in activity, and thus emissions. (Note that this change will not impact state and local regulatory use since default VMT cannot be used for SIP or conformity purposes.)

MOVES3.0.1 also updates the default gasoline for Essex County, New York, changing it from reformulated gasoline to conventional gasoline. While one portion of Essex County is an area that would use reformulated gasoline, that portion has no gas stations and thus conventional gasoline is the appropriate fuel in MOVES for this county. In runs where Essex County is modelled with default fuel inputs, MOVES3.0.1 will estimate higher emissions from gasoline vehicles for most pollutants as compared to MOVES3.0.0, but will estimate lower CO emissions. For more information about fuel inputs for state and local regulatory analyses, see EPA’s MOVES3 Technical Guidance.

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