Welcome to TREFIC 5 User Guide

Calculation of model-ready emissions from road traffic, based on COPERT 5 emission factors

This guide is organized in the following sections:

• Acronyms: list of abbreviations used throughout the guide

• Software description: describes the software

• Structure and description of input: describes the formats of all input files

• Structure and description of output: describes the formats of all output files

• The GUI: describes the Graphical User Interface

• Bibliography: list of scientific papers referenced in the guide

FORTRAN I/O formats are illustrated in Appendix A.

Acronyms

SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION

Introduction

Program structure

• COPERT 5 methodology
  • COPERT 5 EF Formulas
• Updated EFs for HDVs
• EFs complementary methodologies for particulates
  • Particulates from Abrasions
  • EPA AP-42 resuspension from paved roads
• Emission degradation due to vehicle age
• Speed corrections
  • Emission correction at very low speed
  • High speed correction

STRUCTURE AND DESCRIPTION OF INPUT

• Description of the INPUTRAF.PRN file
  • Section related to aggregated emissions calculation
  • Section related to the modulated output generation for SPRAY

• Description of the fleet file
• Description of vehicular activity input files
  • Dedicated ASCII format for road network
  • MapInfo format
• Description of time modulation files
• Description of the VOC lumping file

• Content of TABTRAF.PRN file

STRUCTURE AND DESCRIPTION OF OUTPUT

• Description of standard output file
• Description of output file in MapInfo format
• Description of log file for run control
• Description of output files for emissions aggregated over road types
• Output file in ARIA cartographic format (.CAR)
• Time modulated output file in ARIA time emissions profiles format (.LIV)
• Time modulated output files in “PEMTIM” format (.PTM .PSP .PAR)
• Time modulated output files in “fichier client” format (.LIN and/or .SRF)
• Output file for emissions aggregated by road type, macrocategory, fuel, Euro standard (.TAG)

The GUI

• Window “Step 1 of 3”
  • Main menu
    • Language
    • About… window
  • Window controls: input section
    • Fleet file
    • Road network file
  • Window controls: output section
    • Standard output file
    • GIS output file
    • Log file
    • Output file of emission by road type
    • Output file for SPRAY/EMGR-FARM modelling system
  • Window buttons
• Window “Step 2 of 3”
  • Main menu
  • Standard window controls
    • Site
    • Traffic time step
    • Road slope
    • HDV load
    • VOCs speciation
    • PAHs+POPs calculation
    • Emission degradation with vehicle age
    • Stationary evaporative emissions
  • SPRAY/EMGR-FARM window controls
    • Pollutant species
    • Space and time emission origins
    • Particle concentration resolution
    • Time modulations
• Step 3 of 3

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appendix A – FORTRAN I/O formats