A Tradeoff Model for Selecting and Evaluating Regional Air Quality Control Strategies.

William T. Mikolowsky, James H. Bigelow, B. F. Goeller, J. K. Ives

ResearchPublished 1973

Given both mobile and fixed sources of pollution, the number of feasible strategies for meeting regional air-quality standards becomes so vast that it is impractical to evaluate all of them in terms of detailed impacts. To aid in this process, the computer-based tradeoff model has been developed to evaluate alternative strategies, select superior strategies for further evaluation, and analyze the sensitivity of results to key assumptions. Given a fixed-source control strategy, a menu of retrofit-inspection/maintenance strategies, and a menu of transportation management strategies, the tradeoff model finds the best combination--i.e., the superior strategy--and calculates a variety of impacts. The best combination is defined as the one that meets the desired air-quality standard for the minimum value of the total-cost proxy, where this proxy includes both the net expenditure for strategy components and the monetary proxy for the social cost of forgone travel. 79 pp. Ref.

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Mikolowsky, William T., James H. Bigelow, B. F. Goeller, and J. K. Ives, A Tradeoff Model for Selecting and Evaluating Regional Air Quality Control Strategies. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 1973. https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R1367.html.
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