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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Influencing Factors and Prediction Model of Light-Duty Vehicle CO2 Emissions on Expressways in Mountainous Plateau Areas
Jianping Gao 1
,
 
Xin Huang 1
,
 
Yunyong He 2
,
 
Enhuai He 2
,
 
Lu Sun 2
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Changfeng Yang 2
 
 
 
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School of Civil Engineering, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, 400074, China
 
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Sichuan Highway Planning, Survey, Design and Research Institute ltd., Chengdu, 610041, China
 
 
Submission date: 2025-02-18
 
 
Final revision date: 2025-03-25
 
 
Acceptance date: 2025-04-13
 
 
Online publication date: 2025-07-01
 
 
Corresponding author
Yunyong He   

Sichuan Highway Planning, Survey, Design and Research Institute ltd., Chengdu, 610041, China
 
 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15244/pjoes/203996
 
 
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KEYWORDS
CO2 emission rate
portable emission measurement system
mountainous plateau area
model-agnostic meta-learning
influencing factors
 
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ABSTRACT
We selected a 288 km expressway in the western Sichuan Plateau mountainous area to reveal the factors influencing CO2 emissions from light-duty vehicles and establish a localized prediction model. Instantaneous CO2 emission data (9,381 sets) were obtained through real-vehicle emission tests. The influential characteristics of CO2 emission rates under different environmental characteristics, alignment conditions, and operational states were analyzed. CO2 emission prediction models based on random forest (RF) and model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithms were constructed, compared, and analyzed. The findings indicated that: (1) Vehicle-specific power (VSP) was the most important factor determining the CO2 emission rate. The feature importance of VSP in the upslope and downslope directions was 0.25 and 0.22, respectively; (2) The CO2 emission rate distribution patterns were approximated by a Gamma distribution within different grade and angle change rate intervals. At grades < -1%, between -1 and 1%, and > 1%, CO2 emission rates decreased, stabilized, and increased, respectively, with increasing angle change rate intervals; (3) The evaluation metrics for the MAML model outperformed those of the RF model, indicating higher adaptability to unknown tasks.
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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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