Development of Systems for Measuring and Mitigating Emissions and Noise from Transport Integrated in Infrastructures

Emissions and noise from transport affect seriously people's health and environmental ecosystems, requiring the implementation of monitoring and mitigation measures to achieve a real reduction in all transport modes and achieve a real sustainable mobility. Monitoring systems integrated in the infrastructure can help in identifying vehicles that do not respect certain emission limits. In this scenario, NEMO project (Noise and Emissions Monitoring and radical mitigation) seeks to create the most advanced and purely European solution to reduce emissions and noise from transport, by empirically measuring individual vehicles to apply personalized tariffs to the most emitting vehicles or preventing their access to sensitive zones. The whole NEMO concept is focused on the development (hardware, infrastructure and software) of a reliable novel Remote Sensing systems to measure traffic emissions and noise. The system is integrated into existing road, rail, maritime and IT infrastructures to make it standardized, more user-friendly and able to operate continuously without human supervision for continuous monitoring. The new measurement systems, present a wider measurement range to ensure that the sensitivity of the measurements is adequate to the development of the automotive industry, thus helping to form a global and scalable solution to improve air quality and reduce noise impact in European cities.