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  • How does MOVES Calculate CO2 and CO2 Equivalent Emissions?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . MOVES calculates the energy it takes to operate an onroad vehicle based on energy consumption rates as explained in the technical reports Greenhouse Gas and Energy Consumption Rates for Onroad Vehicles MOVES3 (pdf) (November 2020, EPA-420-R-20-015) and Exhaust Emission Rates…

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  • Can I go visit the derailment site?

    No. The site will remain closed to the public until work is completed for health and safety reasons. If you missed our “Track Talk” information session on May 18, the session showed a video and several photos of progress at the site.

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  • How do I output rates by VSP bin?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . MOVES does not output rates by VSP bin. MOVES output provides emission inventories (in units of mass or total energy) or (for running exhaust) emission rates by speed bin (in units mass or energy per distance, such as g/mile). For…

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  • Does MOVES2014 Have the Capacity for Modeling Mid-Level Ethanol Blends?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . MOVES2014 includes updated fuel effects and is designed to model ethanol volumes up to 15% (that is, E0 to E15). It can also model E85 (ethanol volumes of 70 to 85 percent), but MOVES2014 is not designed to model intermediate…

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  • What are the Units of Road Grade in the Links Table?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The field road grade in the Links table should be entered as a percentage rather than a decimal fraction. In other words, a road grade of 4% should be entered in MOVES as 4, rather than 0.04.

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  • What are Possible Causes of MySQL Query Errors?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . You need to make sure the character set in the MySQL my.ini file is set to UTF-8. MOVES does not recognize other character sets and this will result in incorrect or incomplete output.

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  • Can N2O (nitrous oxide) Emissions be Estimated in the MOVES Nonroad Model?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Nitrous oxide (N2O) results is not an option you can select for nonroad equipment in MOVES.

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  • Is There a Way to Model Emissions of a Single Vehicle on a Given Route in MOVES?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . MOVES is designed to model fleet emissions, but the project scale in MOVES allows you to model a single average vehicle on a link (road segment). The project scale requires the user to import detailed data, including vehicle population. By…

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  • What is the Relationship Between Calendar Year, Model Year, and Age?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . Model year (modelYearID) corresponds to the year that a group of vehicles in the fleet was produced. Calendar year (yearID) is the analysis year as selected in the ‘Time Spans/Year’ panel of the MOVES GUI. For a given calendar year…

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  • Is MOVES the best tool for my work?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . EPA’s MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator (MOVES) is a state-of-the-science emission modeling system that estimates emissions for U.S. mobile sources at the national, county, and project level for criteria air pollutants, greenhouse gases, and air toxics. States other than California must…

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  • If I have concerns about wildlife, who do I contact?

    Contact the following agencies if you have concerns or questions about wildlife: OHIO RESIDENTS: Ohio Division of Natural Resources, 1-800-WILDLIFE or (800) 945-3543 PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENTS: The Pennsylvania Game Commission’s Centralized Dispatch Center at 1-833-PGC-WILD or 1-833-742-9453

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  • What is the Meaning of the MOVESScenarioID Field? What Conditions Must User-Defined MOVESScenarioIDs Meet?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The MOVESScenarioID is merely text that is used to label the output rows resulting from a MOVES rates run and is defined in the Scale Panel of the MOVES GUI. You can enter any text you like, as long as…

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  • Why in my Nonroad Results do I Have a fuelTypeID not Listed in the FuelType Table?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The fuel types used by the nonroad part of MOVES is not located in the FuelType table. If you look in the NRFuelType table you will see that 23 is for nonroad diesel fuel and 24 is for marine diesel…

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  • What Pollutants are Included in “oxides of nitrogen” in MOVES?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . The definition of NOx in MOVES (NO + NO2 + HONO) is different than the standard NOx definition of NOx (NO + NO2). This change has been made to correct the exhaust NOx emission in MOVES for potential interference with…

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  • How are the Number of Weekdays and Weekend Days in each Month Determined in MOVES?

    See More Frequent Questions about MOVES and Related Models . For any given month, MOVES assumes that 5 out of every 7 days in the month are ‘weekdays’ and 2 out of every 7 of days in the month are ‘weekend days.’ For example, MOVES assumes that January has (5/7)*31…

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