Air Quality. Topics
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These themes were also developed in some lectures and visits of the Advanced Training Program on Sustainable Development and Environmental Management.
. Contents of the framework directive on air and of the daughter directive (limits, long term objectives, monitoring requirements).
Policies on Traffic and Air Quality
Lectures and visits
. Legislation on traffic emissions, with the requirements introduced for vehicle maintenance and fuel quality.
Point source pollution and to the so called IPPC directive.
. Composition of the major pollutants: their sources, their reactions in the atmosphere, and their effects on environment and health.
Monitoring and Actions
Lectures and visits
. Atmospheric parameters affecting pollutants: dispersion and effects on global level.
. Overview of the most polluting sectors, concentrating the attention on the European sectors that decreased their emissions.
. Standard monitoring techniques, considering weak and strong points of the different techniques and suggesting a new approach, more suitable for developing countries.
. Italian and European guidelines for the creation of a monitoring network (siting of the stations, list of pollutants included in EU directives, utilization of the obtained data).
.Consideration of geographical context, population exposition and type and intensity of polluting sources, to evaluate the effects.
. Examples of instrumentation and application in the Veneto region.
. Evaluation of the main elements that can help reducing traffic pollution: incentives, different kinds of fuels, traffic zoning, incentives for public transport.
. Technology and structure of ITS system; the example of the system in activity in Beijing.
. Analysis of several pilot applications of hydrogen as a fuel for private and public transport; analysis of the problems related with the diffusion on the market of fuel cell vehicles.
