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The software system IMMIS, a comprehensive set of tools to access traffic induced air pollution, has been and is used to develop many Air Quality Plans, Clean Air Plans and Action Plans in Germany.
Selected cities, where IMMIS has been used for the development of more than 50 plans, are listed in a table.
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IVU Umwelt was present with a booth and two contributions to the poster programme at the International Symposium "Transport and Air Pollution" TAP 2010.
Poster: "A monitoring system to control effects and effectiveness of
traffic measures in urban areas"
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The exhibition was an excellent opportunity for conference participants to see a selection of the latest equipment and services offered by leading manufacturers in the field of emission and quality measurement. The exhibition was located in a marquee just outside the main conference hall.
The "Transport and Air Pollution" was held May 18 - 19, 2010 in Dübendorf, near by Zurich in Switzerland. The 18th International Symposium was organized by Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research.
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In spite of many efforts in recent years to improve the air quality in Berlin, especially residents in street canyons with a high traffic density are still exposed to poor air quality and meeting the limit values of European air quality guidelines remains a challenge.
IVU Umwelt has identified the hot spots in Berlin by a combination of measurements and modelling. The results became part of the Clean Air and Action Plan for Berlin 2005 - 2010 which contains the Environmental Zone as a measure to improve air quality.
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The series of guidelines VDI 4280 describes the planning and evaluation of ambient air quality measurements and is an important element of quality assurance in monitoring and assessing air quality in the sector regulated by law.
The guidelines were developed and published by the "Commission on Air Pollution Prevention of VDI and DIN - Standards Committee". VDI, the Association of German Engineers, is a financially independent and politically unaffiliated, non-profit organization of 132,000 engineers and natural scientists. More than 13,000 of these members work for the VDI in an honorary capacity.
IMMISmt is a real time monitoring system for air pollution and noise. Based on online traffic data, measurements of air quality stations, emission data and weather data, IMMISmt continuously calculates traffic induced emissions, background and total pollutant concentrations as well as noise levels within the streets as, e. g., hourly mean values. To do so, IMMISmt combines various models which are validated and widely used in air quality planning.
IMMISmt was developped in the context of two research projects (HEAVEN, Berlin und MOBINET, Munich) and was implemented in the project iQ mobility as a component of an Integrated Quality and Mobility Management for Road Traffic in the Berlin Region.
Specifically, we would like to point out that the user interface is completely revised, new database fields for particles were introduced and the number of database fields is now variable.
The Ruhr area is the biggest German megalopolis, a conglomerate of several intertwining major cities, with more than 5.3 million inhabitants. For this region IVU Umwelt has identified the hot spots by a combination of measurements and modelling on behalf of the State Environmental Agency of North Rhine-Westphalia.
A road network of more than 3000 km in length and with over 8000 inhabited sections was investigated with IMMISluft in order to identify road sections with possibly affected inhabitants. The concentrations are displayed in pollution maps with colors from green, over yellow to red which results in so called "Traffic Light Maps".
The software IMMISmt is used to determine current concentration values based on real-time traffic and meteorological data within the research project "iQ Mobility - Integrated Quality and Mobility Management for Road Traffic in the Berlin Region".
Currently, analysis of an in situ test at Leipziger Straße is in progress.
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