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£1.6m project to monitor London air pollution begins
April 29, 2002A four-year, £1.6 million research project that aims to answer fundamental questions about city traffic and air pollution has begun in Central London.
The project will examine the best ways of making localised pollution hot spots less unpleasant and unhealthy, and attempt to discover the pollution differences between road zones where traffic accelerates and that of a larger area where traffic is queuing.
Project leader Professor Alan Robins of the University of Surrey, and Dr Roy Colvile at Imperial College, are bringing together leading UK experts in transport and air dispersion studies to examine the effects of pollution in the urban environment.
Field measurements in Central London will be focused around the junction of Marylebone Road and Gloucester Place, extending as far as Madame Tussaud`s to the east and 200 metres to the north and south.
"Our results will help to reveal the real benefit of measures such as congestion charging," said Dr Colvile. "The air quality improvement due to the Mayor`s scheme might be undetectably small using the measures conventionally applied by local and national government. But that`s because these measurements fail to represent what people actually experience as `bad` air quality as they live and work in a big city like London."
"If we can identify ways of rewarding less polluting options such as cycling and walking, by giving these people the cleanest air to breathe, that will represent a real step forward towards a more sustainable development of our stressed urban transport system," added Dr Colvile.
The conclusions and recommendations from the research in London will be assessed and, where appropriate, widely applied in other cities in the UK and abroad. The DAPPLE project began in April 2002, with the first field measurements to be taken in November. It is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Imperial College, University of London
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