Project description
Innovative remote-sensing technology for emission detection in real-world vehicles
To reduce air pollutant emissions and improve air quality in each unique urban environment, a system of customised monitoring and data management is essential. Towards this aim, the EU-funded CARES project will develop a set of remote emission sensing instruments, data handling and analysis tools focused on tracking and measuring real-world vehicle emissions. The project's innovations will improve the user-friendliness and lower the costs by faster and more automated procedures to provide a widespread means for remote emission sensing. To maximise its exploitation potential, the project 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.
Objective
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 major, 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.
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
100 31 Stockholm
Sweden
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Participants (19)
Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
999077 Hong Kong
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
100084 BEIJING
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Legal entity established in a non-associated third country that is not eligible for funding under Article 10 of the Regulation (EU) No 1290/2013 laying down the rules for participation and dissemination in Horizon 2020.
100012 Beijing
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LS2 9JT Leeds
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YO10 5DD York North Yorkshire
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2361 Laxenburg
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10623 Berlin
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2595 DA Den Haag
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8010 Graz
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20123 Milano
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160 00 Praha
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31-104 KRAKOW
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20134 Milano
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546 36 THESSALONIKI
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8600 Dubendorf
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69117 Heidelberg
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69214 Eppelheim
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
165 00 Praha
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01069 Dresden
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