Growth Effects of Major Land Use Projects is a research program whose goal is to formulate a methodology to predict air pollutant emissions resulting from the construction and operation of two types of major land use projects, large residential projects and large concentrations of employment (i.e., office parks and industrial parks). Emissions are quantified from the major project, from land use induced by the major project, from secondary activity occurring off-site (i.e., generation of electricity by utilities), and from motor vehicle traffic associated with both the major project and its induced land uses. This report documents the development of a set of land use based emission factors (i.e., emissions per unit of building floor area or per dwelling unit) that are used to estimate emissions from the induced land uses and secondary activities. To accomplish this, energy consumption in several categories of buildings is quantified. The emission sources may be principally categorized as follows: Stationary source emissions occurring on the site of the major project (e.g., the on-site combustion of fuel oil for space heating needs); stationary source emissions occurring at the land use induced by the major project (e.g., the on-site combustion of fuel oil for space heating needs); and secondary (i.e., occurring off-site) stationary source emissions (e.g., the combustion of fuel oil at the local electric utility to serve the electricity demand of the major project and induced land uses).

Prepared by under contract no. 68-02-2076. Issued Sept. 1976. Includes bibliographical references.

v.1 Specification and causal analysis of model -- v.2 Compilation of land use based emission factors -- v. 3. Summary. Growth Effects of Major Land Use Projects is a research program whose goal is to formulate a methodology to predict air pollutant emissions resulting from the construction and operation of two types of major land use projects, large residential projects and large concentrations of employment (i.e., office parks and industrial parks). Emissions are quantified from the major project, from land use induced by the major project, from secondary activity occurring off-site (ie., generation of electricity by utilities, and from motor vehicle traffic associated with both the major project and its induced land uses.