Project name: CARES
Programme name: HORIZON 2020
Call title: Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)
Project title: City Air Remote Emission Sensing
Project registration number: 814966
Project description: The aim of CARES is to further develop remote emission sensing instruments, data handling and analysis such that it becomes a widespread means for the monitoring and enforcement of real-world vehicle emissions, leading to reduced emissions and improvements in air quality. To reach this goal, CARES will complement existing commercial remote emission sensing instruments with two other non-intrusive and contactless methods of measuring real-world vehicle emissions to greatly expand current measurement capabilities. We develop plume chasing instruments into easy-to-use tools for enforcement agents to detect high emitters in free flowing traffic. We turn fast-response air quality sensors into roadside point samplers, adding particle mass, number and size to the remote emission sensing measurement capabilities. Furthermore, we speed up the data handling of all types of remote emission sensing instruments – existing commercial types as well as those further developed within CARES – to move them towards a real-time analysis of vehicle emission data; we merge the emissions data with vehicle technical data from national vehicle registers and relevant data from traffic and air quality management systems. Third, we eliminate today’s often very time-consuming data analysis by providing a suite of open-source analytical functions for a first, quick analysis of remote emission sensing data. All our innovations aim to improve the user friendliness, to bring down costs by quicker and more automated operations, and to achieve a broader deployment potential of remote emission sensing. CARES will demonstrate these developments in three majors, heavily air polluted cities in Europe identifying the best fit for the respective purpose. Finally, CARES will bring together researchers, remote emission sensing technology providers, local, regional and national authorities and many other stakeholders from Europe, China and the rest of the world, to maximize the project's exploitation potential.
Total eligible expenditure: 3,326,735.50 EUR
Physical implementation: 1.7.2019 - 30.6.2022
Participants:
- IVL SVENSKA MILJOEINSTITUTET AB/IVL/Sweden
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS/UNIVLEEDS/United Kingdom
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK/UoY/United Kingdom
- INTERNATIONALES INSTITUT FUER ANGEWANDTE SYSTEMANALYSE/IIASA/Austria
- ICCT - INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION EUROPE GGMBH/ICCT/Germany
- NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO/TNO/Netherlands
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ/TU GRAZ/Austria
- INNOVHUB - STAZIONI SPERIMENTALI PER L'INDUSTRIA SRL/INNOVHUB S/Italy
- CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE/Czech Tech Univ/Czech Republic
- STOWARZYSZENIE KRAKOWSKI ALARM SMOGGOWY/KAS/Poland
- AGENZIA MOBILITA' AMBIENTE E TERRITORIO SRL/AMAT/Italy
- ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS/AUTH/Greece
- EIDGENOSSISCHE MATERIALPRUFUNGS- UND FORSCHUNGSANSTALT/EMPA/Switzerland
- RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAET HEIDELBERG/UHEI/Germany
- AIRYX GMBH/Airyx GmbH/Germany
- CESKA ZEMEDELSKA UNIVERZITA V PRAZE/CZU/Czech Republic
Project coordination: IVL SVENSKA MILJOEINSTITUTET AB (IVL), Valhallavaegen 81, STOCKHOLM 100 31, Sweden,
VAT ID: CZ: SE556116244601, represented for the purpose of signing the Agreement by its CEO, Mr. Tord SVEDBERG.
Principal Investigator for CZU Faculty of Engineering: Ing. Martin Pechout, PhD.