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Leicester
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Leicester and the participation to CITEAIR
As Lead Partner, Leicester City Council will be involved in the planning and execution of all main outputs and products of the CITEAIR project.
We will be actively involved in sharing information on air quality management, monitoring and management. By providing data for the COW, the city's air quality
will be compared with other cities in Europe in an accessible form for all. This is in line with the AARHUS Convention 1998 which promotes access of information
to encourage public participation in the negotiation and implementation of environmental actions.
For Leicester, the legacy of CITEAIR will enable the city's air quality issues to be assessed in a wider European context by both local public and
professionals, allowing for better decision making in the transport strategies, working towards meeting air quality objectives.
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Institutional Context & Infrastructure
Leicester's traffic and air quality infrastructure is managed by the departments Transport Systems, Transport Strategy and Pollution Control,
which contains:
Urban traffic control system with over 200 automatic vehicle count sites, SCOOT, MOVA & REMAC traffic control with modules for bus priority, congestion
and pollution and incorporates TRIPS & SATURN traffic modelling. Leicester has extensive CCTV network & enforcement camera network. The City currently
operates 2 Free-Text and 31 Car park Variable Message Signs (VMS) Network and Real-time Passenger Information System (Star Trak).
Leicester uses an Air Quality Dispersion Modelling suite created by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) called AIRVIRO.
ADMS-Urban is also available. Linking it with SATURN Traffic Model to set up the traffic emissions database, and then interfacing it with live output from
the SCOOT system have enhanced the Emissions Database (EDB). Data from the AUN and other traditional air quality monitoring equipment is supplemented by
data from 10 Roadside Pollution Monitors developed with ITS and Siemens Traffic Control Limited (STCL) and fed into the EDB. A local meteorological mast
automatically provides weather data for AIRVIRO. The model can be updated easily (i.e. construction of By-Pass or for scenario calculations) and uses
the SCOOT data to provide near real-time 'hourly now casts' and '3-day forecasts' of pollution levels within the City. Since traffic represents over 60%
of the pollution in the City, then the AIRVIRO predictions can be used by the UTMC system to implement Traffic Demand Management Strategies (TDMS)
in real-time.
Active support from the DfT, the Dti, DEFRA, EPSRC and others has created a significant research infrastructure including the 'Instrumented City',
used by over 200 research projects and cooperated jointly with the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds. Collaborative work is
also undertaken with several Universities and Institutions across Europe.
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