Document ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2010-0162-3444
Agency: epa
Document Type: Supporting & Related Material
Title: 
Posted Date: 2011-08-01T04:00Z

This document is designed to help one use the input files provided by
EPA in HD GHG FRM docket to run MOVES to produce the output EPA used to
developed emission inventories for all the HD GHG alternatives.

The actual inputs for these runs can be found on DVD at the Docket
Center:

EPA West Building, Room 3334

1301 Constitution Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20004

Telephone: (202) 566-1744

Code

The version of the MOVES code used is 2010-08-26.  This should be
available on the MOVES website as MOVES2010a.

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/models/moves/index.htm

Default database

MOVESDB20101006 was used at the default database.  

Input databases

The input databases are used to change the default data in MOVES to
reflect HD GHG rule alternatives.  These databases are:

		

Alternative 1 – Reference/baseline

hdghg_frm_Alt1_reference

Alternative 1a – AEO baseline

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011_Comb2b3

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011_Voc

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011_LHD45

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011wroadload_Comb2018

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011wroadload_Comb2030

hdghg_frm_Alt1a_AEO2011wroadload_Comb2030

Alternative 2 – 12 percent less stringent than preferred alternative

hdghg_frm_Alt2_12pctless_MHDHHD2b3

hdghg_frm_Alt2_12pctless _LHD45

Alternative 3 – Preferred

hdghg_frm_Alt3_Preferred_Comb2b3

hdghg_frm_Alt3_Preferred_Voc

hdghg_frm_Alt3_Preferred_LHD45

Alternative 4 – 20 percent more stringent than preferred alternative

hdghg_frm_Alt4_20pctmore_Comb2b3

hdghg_frm_Alt4_20pctmore _Voc

hdghg_frm_Alt4_20pctmore _LHD45

Alternative 5 – Maximum technology penetration plus trailers

hdghg_frm_Alt5_maxhybrid_Comb2b3

hdghg_frm_Alt5_maxhybrid _Voc

hdghg_frm_Alt5_maxhybrid _LHD45

The samplevehiclepopulation table also needed to be modified to reflect
proper sales and fleet distributions of the different segments of
trucks.  However, the version of MOVES we ran does not allow for this
table to be used in an input database.  As a result, new default
databases were created containing the updated samplevehiclepopulation
table.  These modified default databases are:

MOVESDB20101006_FRM_MHDHHD2b3

MOVESDB20101006_FRM_45

MOVESDB20110120_FRM_MHDHHD2b3 (toxics only)

MOVESDB20110120_FRM_45 (toxics only)

These modified default databases work in concert with any input
databases specified in the run spec.  

Copy all databases into where MOVES requires its databases (likely
C:\MySQL\data).

Run Specs

Ninety-four run specs are included.  Forty-two runs are for the non-GHGs
and GHGs for calendar years 2005, 2018, 2030, and 2050.  Fifty-two runs
are for annual GHGs from 2014 through 2050.  CO2 and CO2eq were not
explicitly run.  Instead, total energy consumption was run and
post-processed to calculate CO2 (by fuel), and methane and N2O were run
separately.

The run specs should already call up the appropriate modified default
databases and user input databases, so no additional changes need to be
made to the run specs, provided the names of the databases are
unchanged.  Feel free to edit the name of the output databases to better
suit your need.

Air toxics are included in the gasoline runs, but not for diesel runs. 
Air toxics are post-processed for diesel vehicles.  

Included are two batch files – one for GHGs and one for non-GHGs
(including toxics) – which initiate MOVES and queue up all of the run
specs.  You will need to edit the batch files so that the file paths for
MOVES and the run specs match the locations on your local hard drives. 
When ready to run MOVES, simply double-clicking a batch file will start
the runs in that file.

Not all alternatives were run explicitly in MOVES.  Some alternatives
are subsets of the alternatives run in MOVES and were therefore
post-processed.

Post-processing

Post-processing was a necessary component to the inventory development
for the following items:

Using reference inventories and activity for pre-rule model years

APU emission rates for extended idling for combination long-haul trucks

Diesel air toxics

Combining MOVES runs to produce inventories for all alternatives

Post-processing was done using SAS software.  Other software can be used
to post-process if desired, but only SAS code is included.  The included
SAS code should automate most of the post-processing. 

At the top of the SAS code, you must modify the file path to define the
directory where on your local drive you want the post-processed files to
be located.  Also, make sure that the library names for the mySQL output
databases match the actual names of the databases.

Then, in SAS, highlight all the text in the file and run.  This should
complete the post-processing.  All pollutants in the FRM inventories
should be represented accurately.  Certain other pollutants may be
incomplete or extraneous (e.g. NMHC).  Both the annual and four-year
runs will be in a single file.  You can separate this if you wish.

Prashanth Gururaja

Gururaja.Prashanth@epa.gov