The inputs to the MOVES Driver Script (Runspec_generator.pl) include the temperature and humidity conditions output from Met4moves and two additional inputs, the RunControl and RepCounty files. The RunControl file contains pollutant selections and the file path location to the Met4moves output. The RepCounty file contains file path locations to user-created MOVES-formatted inputs for age distribution, fuel supply and formulation, inspection and maintenance programs, county level population and annual VMT for each reference county. Precise formats of the RunControl and RepCounty files can be found in the Section 8.9.2.2.2, “Reference County File for MOVES Driver Script” and Section 8.9.2.2.1, “Run Control File for MOVES Driver Script”.

A MOVES Driver Script to automates the MOVES run setups and prepare two kinds of batch files. When launched, the batch files instruct MOVES to:

The resulting RatePerDistance (RPD), RatePerVehicle (RPV), RatePerProfile (RPP), and RatePerHour (RPH) tables contain all the conditions needed for regional modeling using SMOKE modeling system.

Once a MOVES batch run completes, MOVES populates the four output lookup tables with formats listed in Table 2.14, “MOVES Emission Rate Lookup Table (MOVES Format)”. A MOVES Post-processing Script (Moves2smkEF.pl) in Perl interacts with MySQL to modify the default formats shown in Table 2.14, “MOVES Emission Rate Lookup Table (MOVES Format)” into a text ASCII-format readable by SMOKE, shown in Table 2.15, “MOVES Emission Rate Lookup Table (SMOKE Format)”.

The MOVES Post-processing Script converts the MOVES format Emission Rate Lookup Table to the SMOKE format Emission Rate Table by performing the following: