| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/N36233/01 |
| Title: |
THE DEVELOPMENT AND DEMONSTRATION OF A VEHICLE PERFORMANCE AND EMISSIONS MONITORING SYSTEM |
| Principal Investigator: |
Ochieng, Professor WY |
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| Department: |
Civil & Environmental Engineering |
| Organisation: |
Imperial College London |
| Scheme: |
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| Starts: |
20 October 2000 |
Ends: |
19 October 2003 |
Value (£): |
230,965
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| EPSRC Research Topic Classifications: |
| Instrumentation Eng. & Dev. |
Transport Ops & Management |
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| Transport Systems and Vehicles |
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Environmental problems associated with transport are serious, growing and constitute a major challenge to policy makers. The current array of technological, institutional and planning tools available to address these problems are inadequate and need urgently to be upgraded. A key feature of these problems is that they arise from the interaction of human behavioural and physical systems.Thus, to improve our understanding of environmental and health problems associated with vehicle emissions it is necessary to combine both travel and traffic behaviour data with environmental data. There are currently no such databases available and the inability to collect self-consistent traffic, travel and environmental data is a major impediment to the development of the necessary scientific underpinning for effective policy interventions.The project aims to contribute to the realisation of the data requirements by enhancing and applying state-of-the-art environmental monitoring, positioning, communications and data management technologies to create and demonstrate the capabilities of an accurate and reliable vehicle performance and emissions monitoring system (VPEMS). The device will be fitted on vehicles to monitor vehicle and driver performance and the level of emissions internal and external to the vehicle. Tools managing the data and an exploitation strategy will also be developed.EngProg\
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