Exploring Non-Exhaust Emission Factors

When assessing vehicle emissions inventories for particles, one relevant step is taking into account the non-exhaust processes, such as tire, brake and road wear. The gtfs2emis incorporates the non-exhaust emissions methods from EMEP-EEA.

The following equation is employed to evaluate emissions originating from tire and brake wear

TE_i = dist × EF_tsp(j) × mf_s(i) × SC(speed) where:

TE(i) = total emissions of pollutant i (g),
dist = distance driven by each vehicle (km),
EF_tsp(j) = TSP (Total Suspended Particle) mass emission factor for vehicles of category j (g/km),
mf_s(i) = mass fraction of TSP that can be attributed to pollutant i,
SC(speed) = correction factor for a mean vehicle travelling at a given speed (-).

Tire

In the case of heavy-duty vehicles, the emission factor needs the incorporation of vehicle size, as determined by the number of axles, and load. These parameters are introduced into the equation as follows:

EFTSP_tire^hdv = 0.5 × N_axle × LCF_tire × EFTSP_tire^pc

where:

EFTSP_tire^hdv = TSP emission factor for tire wear from heavy-duty vehicles (g/km),
N_axle = number of vehicle axles (-),
LCF_tire = a load correction factor for tire wear (-),
EFTSP_tire^pc = TSP emission factor for tire wear from passenger car vehicles (g/km).

and LCF_tire = 1.41 + (1.38 × LF)

where:

LF = load factor (-), ranging from 0 for an empty bus to 1 for a fully laden one.

The function considers the following look-up table for number of vehicle axes:

vehicle class (j)	number of axes
Ubus Midi <=15 t	2
Ubus Std 15 - 18 t	2
Ubus Artic >18 t	3
Coaches Std <=18 t	2
Coaches Artic >18 t	3

The size distribution of tire wear particles are given by:

particle size class (i)	mass fraction of TSP
TSP	1.000
PM10	0.600
PM2.5	0.420
PM1.0	0.060
PM0.1	0.048

Finally, the speed correction is:

SC_tire(speed) = 1.39, when speed < 40km/h;
SC_tire(speed) = −0.00974 × speed + 1.78, when 40 < = speed < = 90km/h;
SC_tire(speed) = 0.902, when speed > 90km/h.

library(gtfs2emis)
emi_europe_emep_wear(dist = units::set_units(1,"km"),
                              speed =  units::set_units(30,"km/h"),
                              pollutant = c("PM10","TSP","PM2.5"),
                              veh_type = "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t",
                              fleet_composition = 1,
                              load = 0.5,
                              process = c("tyre"),
                              as_list = TRUE)
#> $pollutant
#> [1] "PM10"  "TSP"   "PM2.5"
#> 
#> $veh_type
#> [1] "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t"
#> 
#> $fleet_composition
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $speed
#> 30 [km/h]
#> 
#> $dist
#> 1 [km]
#> 
#> $emi
#>    PM10_tyre_veh_1 TSP_tyre_veh_1 PM2.5_tyre_veh_1
#>            <units>        <units>          <units>
#> 1:  0.01873998 [g]  0.0312333 [g]   0.01311799 [g]
#> 
#> $process
#> [1] "tyre"

Brake

The heavy-duty vehicle emission factor is derived by modifying the passenger car emission factor to conform to experimental data obtained from heavy-duty vehicles.

EFTSP_brake^hdv = 1.956 × LCF_brake × EFTSP_brake^pc

where:

EFTSP_brake^hdv = heavy-duty vehicle emission factor for TSP,
LCF_brake = load correction factor for brake wear,
EFTSP_brake^pc = passenger car emission factor for TSP.

LCF_brake = 1 + (0.79 × LF),

where:

LF = load factor (-), ranging from 0 for an empty bus to 1 for a fully laden one.

The size distribution of brake wear particles are given by:

particle size class (i)	mass fraction of TSP
TSP	1.000
PM10	0.980
PM2.5	0.390
PM1.0	0.100
PM0.1	0.080

Finally, the speed correction is:

SC_brake(speed) = 1.67, when speed < 40km/h;
SC_brake(speed) = −0.0270 × speed + 2.75, when 40 < = speed < = 95km/h;
SC_brake(speed) = 0.185, when speed > 95km/h.

emi_europe_emep_wear(dist = units::set_units(1,"km"),
                              speed =  units::set_units(30,"km/h"),
                              pollutant = c("PM10","TSP","PM2.5"),
                              veh_type = "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t",
                              fleet_composition = 1,
                              load = 0.5,
                              process = c("brake"),
                              as_list = TRUE)
#> $pollutant
#> [1] "PM10"  "TSP"   "PM2.5"
#> 
#> $veh_type
#> [1] "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t"
#> 
#> $fleet_composition
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $speed
#> 30 [km/h]
#> 
#> $dist
#> 1 [km]
#> 
#> $emi
#>    PM10_brake_veh_1 TSP_brake_veh_1 PM2.5_brake_veh_1
#>             <units>         <units>           <units>
#> 1:   0.03349245 [g]  0.03417597 [g]    0.01332863 [g]
#> 
#> $process
#> [1] "brake"

Road Wear

Emissions are calculated according to the equation:

TE(i) = dist × EF_tsp^road(j) × mf_road

where:

TE(i) = total emissions of pollutant i (g),
dist = total distance driven by vehicles in category j (km),
EF_tsp^road = TSP mass emission factor from road wear for vehicles j (0.0760 g/km),
mf_road = mass fraction of TSP that can be attributed to particle size class i (-).

The following table shows the size distribution of road surface wear particles

particle size class (i)	mass fraction of TSP
TSP	1.00
PM10	0.50
PM2.5	0.27

emi_europe_emep_wear(dist = units::set_units(1,"km"),
                              speed =  units::set_units(30,"km/h"),
                              pollutant = c("PM10","TSP","PM2.5"),
                              veh_type = "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t",
                              fleet_composition = 1,
                              load = 0.5,
                              process = c("road"),
                              as_list = TRUE)
#> $pollutant
#> [1] "PM10"  "TSP"   "PM2.5"
#> 
#> $veh_type
#> [1] "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t"
#> 
#> $fleet_composition
#> [1] 1
#> 
#> $speed
#> 30 [km/h]
#> 
#> $dist
#> 1 [km]
#> 
#> $emi
#>    PM10_road_veh_1 TSP_road_veh_1 PM2.5_road_veh_1
#>            <units>        <units>          <units>
#> 1:       0.038 [g]      0.076 [g]      0.02052 [g]
#> 
#> $process
#> [1] "road"

Viewing Emissions

Users can also use one single function to apply for more than one process (e.g. tire, brake and road), as shown below.

library(units)
library(ggplot2)

emis_list <- emi_europe_emep_wear(dist = units::set_units(rep(1,100),"km"),
                     speed =  units::set_units(1:100,"km/h"),
                     pollutant = c("PM10","TSP","PM2.5"),
                     veh_type = c("Ubus Std 15 - 18 t"),
                     fleet_composition = c(1),
                     load = 0.5,
                     process = c("brake","tyre","road"),
                     as_list = TRUE)
ef_dt <- gtfs2emis::emis_to_dt(emis_list,emi_vars = "emi"
                               ,segment_vars = "speed")
ggplot(ef_dt)+
  geom_line(aes(x = as.numeric(speed),y = as.numeric(emi),color = pollutant))+
  facet_wrap(facets = vars(process))+
  labs(x = "Speed (km/h)",y = "Emissions (g)")+
  theme_minimal()

When using the transport_model() output, users can also visualize both hot-exhaust and non-exhaust emissions taking few more steps. This can be done in three main stages: a) Preparing the data, b) Creating spatial grid; c) Generating spatial and temporal visualizations.

a) Preparing the data

library(gtfstools)
library(sf)

# read GTFS
gtfs_file <- system.file("extdata/bra_cur_gtfs.zip", package = "gtfs2emis")
gtfs <- gtfstools::read_gtfs(gtfs_file) 

# keep a single trip_id to speed up this example
gtfs_small <- gtfstools::filter_by_trip_id(gtfs, trip_id ="4451136")

# run transport model
tp_model <- transport_model(gtfs_data = gtfs_small,
                            spatial_resolution = 100,
                            parallel = FALSE)

# Fleet data, using Brazilian emission model and fleet
fleet_data_ef_emep <- data.frame(veh_type = "Ubus Std 15 - 18 t",
                                 fleet_composition = 1,
                                 euro = "V",   # for hot-exhaust emissions 
                                 fuel = "D",   # for hot-exhaust emissions 
                                 tech = "SCR") # for hot-exhaust emissions 
# Emission model (hot-exhaust)
emi_list_he <- emission_model(
  tp_model = tp_model,
  ef_model = "ef_europe_emep",
  fleet_data = fleet_data_ef_emep,
  pollutant = "PM10"
)

# Emission model (non-exhaust)
emi_list_ne <- emi_europe_emep_wear(
  dist = tp_model$dist,
  speed = tp_model$speed,
  pollutant = "PM10",
  veh_type = c("Ubus Std 15 - 18 t"),
  fleet_composition = c(1),
  load = 0.5,
  process = c("brake","tyre","road"),
  as_list = TRUE)

emi_list_ne$tp_model <- tp_model

b) Creating spatial grid

# create spatial grid
grid <- sf::st_make_grid(
  x = sf::st_make_valid(tp_model)
  , cellsize = 0.25 / 200
  , crs= 4326
  , what = "polygons"
  , square = FALSE
)

# grid (hot-exhaust)
emi_grid_he <- emis_grid( emi_list_he,grid,time_resolution = 'day'
                          ,aggregate = TRUE)
setDT(emi_grid_he)
pol_names <- setdiff(names(emi_grid_he),"geometry")
emi_grid_he_dt <- melt(emi_grid_he,measure.vars = pol_names,id.vars = "geometry")
emi_grid_he_dt <- sf::st_as_sf(emi_grid_he_dt)

# grid (non-exhaust)
emi_grid_ne <- emis_grid( emi_list_ne,grid,time_resolution = 'day'
                       ,aggregate = TRUE)
setDT(emi_grid_ne)
pol_names <- setdiff(names(emi_grid_ne),"geometry")
emi_grid_ne_dt <- melt(emi_grid_ne,measure.vars = pol_names,id.vars = "geometry")
emi_grid_ne_dt <- sf::st_as_sf(emi_grid_ne_dt)

# bind grid
emi_grid_dt <- data.table::rbindlist(l = list(emi_grid_he_dt,emi_grid_ne_dt))
emi_grid_sf  <- sf::st_as_sf(emi_grid_dt)

c) Generating spatial and temporal patterns

# plot
library(ggplot2)

ggplot(emi_grid_sf) +
  geom_sf(aes(fill= as.numeric(value)), color=NA) +
  geom_sf(data = tp_model$geometry,color = "black")+
  scale_fill_continuous(type = "viridis")+
  labs(fill = "PM10 (g)")+
  facet_wrap(facets = vars(variable),nrow = 1)+
  theme_void()

The total emissions can be also viewed in bar graphics

# Emissions by time
emi_time_he <- emis_summary(emi_list_he,by = "time")
emi_time_ne <- emis_summary(emi_list_ne,by = "time")

emi_time <- data.table::rbindlist(l = list(emi_time_he,emi_time_ne))

ggplot(emi_time)+
  geom_col(aes(x = process,y = as.numeric(emi),fill = as.numeric(emi)))+
  scale_fill_continuous(type = "viridis")+
  labs(fill = "PM10 level",y = "Emissions (g)")+
  theme_minimal()

References

EMEP/EEA data and reports can be accessed in the following links:

2019 edition EMEP-EEA.

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