Road Transportation Emissions Estimation and Tipping Points

Elizabeth Reilly, Derek Rollend, Kevin Foster, Tomek Kott, Rohita Mocharla, Rai Munoz, Neil Fendley, Chace Ashcraft, Frank Willard, Marisa Hughes

Keywords: emissions monitoring, tipping point, remote sensing, road transportation, road networks, machine learning, neural networks, emissions reduction

Abstract:

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, is
predicting a high risk of several climate tipping points occurring
at even 1 or 2 degrees Celcius of global warming. The
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is tackling
the problem of road transportation emissions as part of
its role on the Climate TRACE coalition. This is key to understanding
current greenhouse gas emissions globally and to
informing climate tipping point analysis and discussion.