Appendix C. CMAQ Project Templates

This appendix provides information about the reviewed projects gathered in the research phase of this study. The information provided by project sponsors was transcribed into individual project templates. The project template was designed to compile all the critical detail about particular project facts in one place to ease subsequent reviews, comparisons, and analysis.

The project templates record the following information reported by project sponsors about each CMAQ project:

• Indentifying Information: Category and Subcategory, State, Year, and CMAQ ID number;
• Description of critical project characteristics and background;
• Impacts on travel: change in vehicle trips, vehicle miles traveled (VMT), transit trips, creation of vanpools, and congestion (speed and delay);
• Emissions reductions: change in emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC), NOx, CO, PM_2.5, and PM₁₀, measured in kilograms per day; and
• Project Costs and cost-effectiveness: Capital (annualized) and operating costs, from CMAQ and non-CMAQ sources, Annualized costs, and a cost-effectiveness calculation, if provided by the local project sponsor.

The profiles were designed to record supporting information concerning the methodologies employed in any of the steps (travel, emissions, costs), such as assumptions, time frames, service lives, and discount rates. Notes were also entered at the bottom of the templates to document the general quality of the information and to note any discrepancies between the CMAQ database and the information provided by the project sponsor.