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Air Quality ManagementAir Quality Management

GuidebookGuidebookPractical experiences from EuropePractical 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

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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

LowImpact

High

Cost

High

Impact

High

Cost

High

Best Case = our aim!

ImpactMedium

CostMedium

ImpactMedium

CostMedium

Impact

Low

Cost

High

Impact

Low

Cost

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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 ascrappage 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

RetrofittingDomestic Heating Traffic Management Systems

Road Tolling /Permit Based AccessIndustrial PollutionAlternative Fuels

Management

Strategies

PedestrianisationParking Restrictions

Integrated Public Transport

and P&RLow Emission Zone

Travel Planning

etc.

No single Solution available! Pick and Mix your specific solution

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Traffic Management SystemsCostHigh

NORTH

City

Centre

Braunstone LaneSOUTH

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

I t t d T t

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Integrated Transport

and TicketingCostHigh

e.g. Karlsruhe, Berlin, Vienna, Munich, Zurich, Bern, Stockholm, Graz,etc.

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Emission ReductionsCostMedium

LEZ

Vehicle Standards

EURO 1-5EURO I-IV

Alternative Fuels

e.g. Graz

Electric vehicles

e.g. MalmoRetro-fitting

Vehicles forNOx and PM

reduction

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Walking / Cycling/ AwarenessCostLow

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)