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CITEAIR Final Conference
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The
The
Air Quality Management
Air Quality Management
Guidebook
Guidebook
Practical experiences from Europe Practical experiences from Europe
Nick Hodges, Leicester City Council
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Content
Managing Air Quality a cycle
General Conditions
Assessment of Strategies
Strategy Packages
Assessment Summary
Management Strategies
Examples and Case Studies
Get the Guidebook!
Partners and Acknowledgements
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Air Quality Management Cycle how
Citeair Products help
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General conditions
Pollutant Species
Pollutant concentrations
Topography
Geography
Layout of the city
Existing infrastructure
Restrictions by politicians
Restrictions by general public
Restrictions by budget
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Assessment of Strategies
Impact
High
Cost
Low
Impact
High
Cost
Low
Impact
High
Cost
High
Impact
High
Cost
High
Best Case = our aim!
Impact
Medium
Cost
Medium
Impact
Medium
Cost
Medium
Impact
Low
Cost
High
Impact
Low
Cost
High
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Strategy Packages
Package 1: low cost, short term, high feasibility
Package 2: Medium cost, medium term
Package 3: high cost, long term
Implementation of a scrappage scheme with financial incentives
Full implementation of a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) with effective
enforcement
Implementation of a designated Freight hub for the city centre
Provision and enhancement of VMS real time route guidance
..
Category 1
Category 2
Category 3
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Assessment Summary
waste treatment incinerators located in the so-called sensitive NOx area should meet by the end
of 2010 a limit value for NOx emissions at 80 mg/Nm3 (instead of 200 mg/Nm3)
closure of certain power stations from Electricity of France and changing the operation mode of
one power station
equipment of low-NOx burners for all the renewed individual boilers
Equipment of all gasoline distribution equipments delivering more than 1000 m3/year of a system
of vapour recovery of the NMVOC from the pumps
Reduction of 30% by 2010 compared to 2000 of the emissions of NOx of the rail traffic in Ile-de-
France by an optimization of the conditions of operating of engines
taken into account of a fall of road traffic corresponding to the realization of part of the measures
registered in the Plan of Urban Mobility
Etc.
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Management Strategies
Fleet Renewals and
Retrofitting
Domestic Heating Traffic Management Systems
Road Tolling /
Permit Based Access
Industrial Pollution
Alternative Fuels
Management
Strategies
Pedestrianisation
Parking Restrictions
Integrated Public Transport
and P&R
Low Emission Zone
Travel Planning
etc.
No single Solution available! Pick and Mix your specific solution
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Traffic Management Systems
Cost
High
NORTH
City
Centre
Braunstone Lane
SOUTH
Imperial Avenue
Fullhurst Avenue
Pollution Monitor
SCOOT junction
Upperton Road
Gating
Road Pricing + Access Control
in Rome
Etc.
Gating Trials in Leicester
Speed Restrictions in Overschie
Congestion Charging in London
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Integrated Transport
and Ticketing
Cost
High
e.g. Karlsruhe, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Bern, Stockholm, Graz,etc.
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Emission Reductions
Cost
Medium
LEZ
Vehicle Standards
EURO 1-5
EURO I-IV
Alternative Fuels
e.g. Graz
Electric vehicles
e.g. Malmo
Retro-fitting
Vehicles for
NOx and PM
reduction
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Walking / Cycling/ Awareness
Cost
Low
Bike and Ride
Walking Bus
Car sharing
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Get it! download it!
At present: draft version
YOU can participate to
enhance this Guidebook!
Available at http://citeair.rec.org/
Available on CD in
your delegate pack
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Partners and Acknowledgements
Nick Hodges (UK)
Jolanta Obszynska (UK)
Chetan Lad (UK)
Ronald Swaton (A)
CIVITAS Initiative
INTEGAIRE project
MOST Project
Sylke Davison (NL)
Sef van den Elshout (NL)
Felix van der Meijden (NL)
Veronique Ghersi (F)
David Hutchinson (UK)
Maria Kazmukova (CZ)
Karine Leger (F)
Fabio Nussio (I)