Carbon Monoxide Screen for Signalized Intersections COSIM, Version 3.0: Technical Documentation

Peters, Scott

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Title

Carbon Monoxide Screen for Signalized Intersections COSIM, Version 3.0: Technical Documentation

Author(s)

Peters, Scott

Issue Date

2008-07

Keyword(s)

carbon monoxide screenings

Abstract

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) currently uses the computer screening model Illinois CO Screen for Intersection Modeling (COSIM) to estimate worst-case CO concentrations for proposed roadway projects affecting signalized intersections. The original model was developed as part of the Illinois Transportation Research Center (ITRC) research project IIIA-H1, FY 97, completed in October 1999. Modeled results from Version 1.0 and 1.1 of COSIM are based on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (USEPA) mobile source emission model, MOBILE5b, and roadway dispersion model, CAL3QHC v 2.0 (Larson, 1999). The second version of COSIM was released in 2003. Version 2.0 incorporated new emission factor (EF) tables developed using USEPA’s updated version of the MOBILE model called MOBILE6. In addition to updating the emission factors used in COSIM, pre-screen criteria for determining when COSIM needs to be used for a roadway project were developed and incorporated into COSIM as a Pre-Screen feature (Larson, 2003). In 2007, regulatory changes in the Illinois vehicle Inspection and Maintenance (I&M) program prompted the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) to recommend that IDOT update COSIM with new EF tables using the MOBILE6.2 model. Based on this recommendation, IDOT and the Illinois Center for Transportation (ICT) provided funding to update the COSIM model. As part of the update, IDOT also requested that the methodology used in creating the original Pre-Screen criteria be reevaluated and possibly revised based on the findings of the evaluation. This report provides technical documentation on the updates and revisions made to Version 3.0 of COSIM finalized in June 2008.

Publisher

Illinois Center for Transportation

Series/Report Name or Number

FHWA-ICT-08-019

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

ICT R27-7

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