MOVESDRAFT2009 

Errata/Information Sheet 
MOVESDRAFT2009 


Errata/Information Sheet 


Assessment and Standards Division 

Office of Transportation and Air Quality 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

EPA-420-B-09-029 

July 2009 
 

 

 

 

 

 

DRAFTMOVES2009 Errata/Information Sheet 

August 01, 2009 

This page lists substantive errors and concerns that have been identified for Draft MOVES2009. 

Many of the items listed here are errors that we intend to fix for the final version of MOVES2009. Others 

items are not errors, per se, but areas where the MOVES design may be problematic and not match user 

expectations. 

If you find problems with MOVES that are not on this list, please let us know by emailing the MOVES 

team at mobile@epa.gov . We plan to update this list as needed. Thank you for helping us improve the 

MOVES model. 

Problem Reported 

Is this an 

actual error 

or an 

information 

item? 

Will a 

correction 

be in the 

final yearend version 

of MOVES? 

1. Default vehicle miles traveled (VMT) projections may not 

match the VMT projections used in other EPA models (such and the 

National Mobile Inventory Model, NMIM). 

Information NA 

2. There will be no output of Benzene, Ethanol, MTBE, 

Naphthalene or Methane for the Refueling Vapor or Refueling Spillage 

loss processes, even though there are check boxes for these pollutants 

in the Pollutants and Processes panel. 

Error Yes 

3. When you execute MOVES, you get the pop-up window that 

allows you to cancel. However, if you instead hit the X in the top 

corner of the box, the program will execute. The normal response 

should be to cancel the run. 

Error Yes 

4. There will be no output of Methane for Evaporative Vapor, 

Evaporative Permeation or Evaporative Leak losses, even though there 

are check boxes for these processes for Methane in the Pollutants and 

Processes panel. 

Error Yes 

5. There are no options to get non-methane hydrocarbon, nonmethane organic gases, total organic gases or volatile organic 

compound speciation of total gaseous hydrocarbons or options for 

methane, nitrous oxide, benzene, ethanol, MTBE, naphthalene, 1,3-

butadiene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde or acrolein for the crankcase 

running, crankcase start or crankcase extended idle processes. 

Error Possibly 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. There are no options to get non-methane hydrocarbon, nonmethane organic gases, total organic gases or volatile organic 

compound speciation of total gaseous hydrocarbons or options for 

methane or nitrous oxide for the extended idle process. 

Error Possibly 

7. The sulfate particulate (PM10 and PM2.5) results from the 

Extended Idle Exhaust process are not correct. This will also cause the 

Primary Exhaust Particulate Total results (PM10 and PM2.5) for this 

process to be incorrect. 

Error Yes 

8. When using the Project Level scale, the Extended Idle Exhaust 

process will only produce results for Total Energy Consumption. 

Error Yes 

9. When using the Project Level scale, adding grade to a link will 

not work properly and incorrectly adjusts for the effects of grade. Do 

not use the grade option. 

Error Yes 

10. In the Time Spans panel, if you choose the Time Aggregation 

Level Year, the panel will still allow you to choose Months, Days and 

Hours. Of course, since you want a total year, selecting anything other 

than all months, days and hours will cause problems. If you choose 

the Time Aggregation Level Year, you must select all months, days 

and hours. Similarly, if you choose the Time Aggregation Level 

Month, you must select all days and hours. If you choose the Time 

Aggregation Level Day, you must select all hours. 

Information An 

improvement will 

be 

included. 

11. When making a retrofit parameter file for importing for the On 

Road Retrofit Strategies panel, you must not use the PollutantID, 

ProcessID, FuelTypeID or SourceTypeID numbers. You must use the 

text names for these parameters. 

Information NA 

12. This version of MOVES does not include criteria pollutant or 

air toxic emission factors for motorcycles. Composite fleet emission 

rates of criteria pollutants or air toxics that are intended to include 

motorcycle emissions will not properly reflect their contribution. 

Information Yes 

13. The Well-to-Pump emission process in this version of MOVES 

has not been updated and will not produce appropriate emission 

results. Users should not select Well-to-Pump process. 

Information No 

14. The emission results for non-methane hydrocarbon, nonmethane organic gases, total organic gases or volatile organic 

compound speciation of total gaseous hydrocarbons from Refueling 

Vapor and Refueling Spillage losses are not correct. Do not select 

these pollutants when including refueling emissions. 

Error Yes 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15. The option to Manage Input Datasets or the Pre-Processing 

Data Importer option does not work properly in some circumstances. 

We are scoping the problem. 

Error Yes 

16. The Calculation Type of Emission Rates on the Scale panel 

will produce emission rates only for the Exhaust Running process. 

Information NA 

17. If you select only the brake wear and tire wear toggle boxes for 

PM, the Distance Traveled toggle box will be inaccessible. You will 

need to select another pollutant in the Running process in order to 

obtain vehicle miles traveled information along with brake wear and 

tire wear emissions. 

Error Yes 

18. I/M NOx rates for the HD RegClassIDs (41, 42, 46, 47, & 48) 

for model years 2010 and later are greater than the non-I/M rates. 

Error Yes 

19. When using the Custom Domain option of the County Data 

Manager, you can not obtain emissions for the Refueling 

Displacement Vapor Loss or Refueling Spillage Loss emission 

processes. 

Error Yes 

20. Introducing electric vehicles into your fleet using the 

Alternative Vehicle Fuel & Technology option of the Strategies 

navigation panel inappropriately reduces Tirewear and Brakewear PM 

emissions proportional to the number of electric vehicles. 

Error Yes 

21. When using the Emission Rate calculation in the Scale panel, 

you cannot obtain either elemental carbon (EC) or organic carbon 

(OC) results. 

Error Yes 

22. The Source Classification Code (SCC) option in the Emission 

Output Detail navigation panel inappropriately diverts some emissions 

from diesel fueled vehicles into gasoline-only SCCs. This will make 

both the gasoline and diesel results using the SCC codes inaccurate. 

Error Yes 

23. Rates for Heavy Duty Diesel Running NOx emissions in model 

years 2021 onward are too high. Running MOVES for heavy duty 

diesel vehicles after year 2020 will cause inaccurate emissions for 

those model years. 

Error Yes 

24. There is an error in the MOVES Output Processing Scripts. 

Once a RunSpec is loaded into the MOVES GUI, the scripts may be 

found in the Post Processing dropdown menu. The TabbedOutput.sql 

script has the error. A new version of the script may be found at 

www.epa.gov/otaq/models/moves/. Download this script and use it to 

Error Yes 
 

 

 

replace the following file: 

C:\ProgramFiles\DRAFTMOVES2009\database\OutputProcessingScri 

pts\TabbedOutput.sql 

25. If the Pollutants/Processes panel is the active panel and the user 

opens a RunSpec from disk (using File-Open) or creates a new 

RunSpec (with File-New), the panel will become unresponsive after 

the RunSpec is created. If this happens, resize the main MOVES 

window to get the frozen panel to respond (or simply change to a 

different panel). 

Error Yes 

26. Draft MOVES2009 erroneously applies a humidity correction 

to pollutants that do not need a humidity correction. The model also 

neglects to apply a NOx humidity correction for E85 vehicles. These 

errors can cause an error in emissions of about 10 percent. 

Error Yes