Strategic Workplan for Particulate Matter Research: 2000 to 2004

Table of Contents

• Executive Summary

• Introduction
  • Purpose and Need for Transportation-Focused PM Research
  • FHWA's Role in PM Research
  • Developing a Strategic Research Workplan for PM
  • Linking PM Research Focus Areas to Transportation Policy Questions
  • Other PM Research Initiatives Relevant to the Research Focus Areas and Projects
  
  
• Research Focus Areas, Goals and Priority Projects
  • Monitoring
  • Characterization
  • Transportation Sources
  • Modeling
  • Control Strategies
  
  

• Next Steps - Implementing the Workplan

• References

• Appendix A

• Appendix B
  

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Acknowledgments

We are expressing our thanks to the participants in FHWA's January 2000 Symposium on Particulate Matter Research issues, and to others who provided valuable input during the Workplan preparation, including:

• Cathy Arthur, Maricopa Association of Governments
• Timothy Belian, Coordinating Research Council
• Kip Billings, Wasatch Front Regional Council
• Bong Kim, South Coast Air Quality Management District
• Mike Brady, Caltrans
• Steven Cadle, General Motors
• William Cates, Clark County, Nevada
• Candis Claiborn, Washington State University
• Chatten Cowherd, Midwest Research Institute
• Pat Cupell, Arizona Department of Transportation
• Richard Denbow, National Association of Regional Councils
• Ronald Edgar, Spokane County Air Pollution Control Authority
• Dennis Fitz, College of Engineering - Center for Environmental Research and Technology
• Michael Kleeman, University of California-Davis
• Douglas Lawson, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
• Kathy McMullen, Mountainlands Association of Governments
• Karen Magliano, California Air Resources Board
• Joe Mauderly, Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute
• Arnold Sherwood, University of California Technology Transfer Program
• Jay Turner, Washington University, St Louis
• Chris Weaver, Engine, Fuel, and Emissions Engineering, Inc.
• John Zamurs, New York Department of Transportation.