CARES - City Air Remote Emission Sensing

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.

All of CARES 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.

Partners

Airyx GmbH
AMAT - Agenzia Mobilità Ambiente e Territorio s.r.l.
Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalonikis, Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory of Applied Thermodynamics
Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences
Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt, EMPA

České vysoké učení technické v Praze, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST
Innovhub Stazioni Sperimentali per l'Industria s.r.l., Divisione Combustibili

International Council on Clean Transportation Europe, ICCT
Internationales Institut für angewandte Systemanalyse, Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases (AIR), IIASA

IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Stowarzyszenie Krakowski Alarm Smogowy
TNO - Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Sustainable Transport & Logistics
Tsinghua University
University of Leeds, Institute for Transport Studies
University of York, Department of Chemistry

Additional Information
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Duration: 01.05.2019 - 30.04.2022

Funding source: EU - Horizon 2020

Coordinator: IVL Svenska Miljöinstitutet

Cares Official Website