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Title Evaluating vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance programs / Committee on Vehicle Emission Inspection and Maintenance Programs, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Trransportation Research Board, National Research Council
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 242 pages) : illustrations
Contents Motor vehicle emissions and regulation -- Vehicle emissions-control technologies -- Vehicle inspection and maintenance programs -- Emerging emissions testing technologies -- Estimating inspection and maintenance emissions reductions using the mobile model -- Evaluating inspection and maintenance programs: methods for estimating emissions reductions -- Evaluating inspection and maintenance costs and other criteria
Summary Emissions inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs subject vehicles to periodic inspections of their emission control systems. Despite widespread use of these programs in air-quality management, policy makers and the public have found a number of problems associated with them. Prominent among these issues is the perception that emissions benefits and other impacts of I/M programs have not been evaluated adequately. Evaluating Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Programs assesses the effectiveness of these programs for reducing mobile source emissions. In this report, the committee evaluates the differences in the characteristics of motor vehicle emissions in areas with and without I/M programs, identifies criteria and methodologies for their evaluation, and recommends improvements to the programs. Most useful of all, this book will help summarize the observed benefits of these programs and how they can be redirected in the future to increase their effectiveness
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-214)
Notes Print version record
Subject Automobiles -- Motors -- Pollution control devices -- Inspection -- Government policy -- United States -- Evaluation
Air quality management -- United States -- Evaluation
Automobiles -- Motors -- Exhaust gas -- Law and legislation -- United States
Motor vehicles -- Inspection.
TRANSPORTATION -- Automotive -- Pictorial.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Automotive.
Motor vehicles -- Inspection
Automobiles -- Motors -- Exhaust gas -- Law and legislation
Air quality management -- Evaluation
United States
Form Electronic book
Author National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Vehicle Emission Inspection and Maintenance Programs.
LC no. 2001096913
ISBN 0309565375
9780309565370