Urban Transport Air Quality

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Urban Transport Air Quality NoiseThe solution
from HEAVEN HEAVEN Project Healthier
Environment through Abatement of Vehicle
Emissions and NoiseIST Programme, Key Action
I - Systems and Services for the CitizensKai
Tullius, IVU Traffic Technologies AGUser Needs
and Benefits - Will HEAVEN meet YOUR requirements?
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Introduction - Structure

• 1 Background (10 minutes)
• 2 Discussion Problems in cities (20 minutes)
• 3 HEAVEN system and functionalities (5 minutes)
• 4 Site specific system presentation (30
  minutes)
• 5 Discussion Does HEAVEN help the cities (20
  minutes)
• 6 Summary (5 minutes)

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Introduction - Aims of the workshop

• Aims of the workshop
• identification of new challenges for cities in
  the field of
• - environmental impact assessment and
  information
• - setting up of action plans / implementation
  of TDMS
• presentation of the site specific HEAVEN Systems
  and their functionalities
• discussion of further functionalities and
  possible system enhancements.

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Background

• EU regulations and consequences for cities
• New air quality limit values to be met by 2005 /
  2010 (among others)
• PM 10 (annual and daily mean)
• NO2 (1 hour mean, annual mean)
• Benzene (annual mean)
• CO (8 hour running mean)
• Noise the future framework directive on noise
  sets common criteria for assessment and mapping
  of noise
• different target values for noise exist on a
  national level

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Background

• EU regulations and consequences for cities
• Assessment of the air quality (measurements
  and/or modelling)
• Action Plans with short-term measures
• Develop and implement action plans to reduce the
  risk for exceedances of the air quality limit
  values
• Abatement long-term measures programmes
• to be set up in non-attainment areas to ensure
  compliance with the limit values within the
  given attainment period
• Guidelines on public information
• Ensure easy access to up-to-date information on
  pollution levels
• Action plans have to be made public

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Background

• Upcoming EU priorities
• Clean Air For Europe (CAFE) programme of the
  Commission
• review of air quality objectives and effects
• integrated strategy covering all relevant
  pollutants and sources
• package of cost-effective measures to reach the
  objectives
• improvement of systems information/modelling/for
  ecasting
• 6th Environmental Action Programme
• Ensure the implementation of existing env.
  Legislation
• Integrate environmental concerns into relevant
  policy areas
• ensure better information on environment for
  citizens

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Discussion 1

• General Discussion Topic
• Where do cities see problems meeting EU
  regulations?
• Monitoring and modelling of air pollution and
  noise
• Informing the public
• Setting up of action plans
• identify appropriate measures to attain the limit
  values
• etc....

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Discussion 1

• Questions
• Do you have problems meeting the new EU
  regulations ? If yes, which ?
• Are limit values exceeded or do you expect to
  have exceedings when new regulations are in force
  ?
• If yes, how many hot spots do you have in your
  city ?
• How do you monitor currently and how will you
  monitor pollution concentration in the future ?
• What are your modelling tools, in particular for
  traffic related pollution ? Do they meet your
  expectations ?
• What traffic measures are planned to reduce
  pollution concentration? How do you evaluate
  their impacts ?

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Discussion 1 - Results
Brief summary of discussion results
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System functionalities
What is the approach in HEAVEN to deal with
the new legislation
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System functionalities

• Information Platform
• Modelling and/or Monitoring of near real time
  pollution (emission and pollution concentration)
• Information provision on environment (and traffic)

• Decision Support System
• Provision of historic data / analysis of
  interactions between different input parameters
• Scenario management evaluation of impacts of
  different TDMS

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System functionalities

• Modelling of near real time pollution
• Input data
• Traffic data
• Background pollution (Sources from outside the
  area)
• Meteo Data (wind direction, speed, etc.)
• Static data (emission sources, network data, etc)
• Results / Modelling Process
• Modelling of Background pollution
• Modelling of Emissions
• Modelling of rooftop pollution concentration
• Modelling of roadside pollution concentration

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System functionalities

• Information Platform / Information Provision
• Pollutants addressed
• PM 10
• Benzene
• CO
• NO 2
• Noise (in Leicester and Berlin)
• Hourly updates of pollution concentration
• Calculation of exceeding of pollution limits
• Spatial resolution in the demonstration phase
  only limited
• areas - in the future for the whole main
  street network

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System functionalities

• Decision Support System
• Retrieval of historic data from the database in
  order to run analysis of interactions between
  various input data (e.g. traffic, background
  pollution, weather conditions) and their impact
  on pollution
• Scenario management
• definition of T(D)MS to be tested
• definition of changed input parameters by
  calculating the traffic effects of the suggested
  T(D)MS
• calculation of environmental effects of the
  T(D)MS (either with HEAVEN or an external system)

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Discussion 2
General Discussion Topic Is HEAVEN a system
which could help you solving your problems in
your city?
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Discussion 2

• Questions
• Do the functionalities of HEAVEN help cities do
  meet EU regulations?
• Which additional functionalities are needed?
• Which system are you currently using in order to
  meet EU regulations - Are there possibilities to
  integrate HEAVEN?

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Discussion 2 - Results
Brief summary of discussion results
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Summary and conclusion