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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Heich, Hermann-Josef"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    CITEAIR – Common Information to European Air
    (Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Hodges, Nick; Heich, Hermann-Josef
    The development of Europe ́s urban centres is in many ways linked with the development of sustainable mobility options. Changes in behaviour, economic growth or recession and structure of the population are factors that have an immediate impact on transport and mobility patterns. Cities and regions are the place where the most complex challenges in transport and environment need to be solved. Air quality has unquestionably adverse effects on human health. Traffic is the dominant source of environmental impacts in most urban areas. Local and regional authorities must therefore find efficient and integrated solutions for their environmental and traffic problems to improve the quality of life for their citizens. The requirement on European cities and regions to implement the related EU regulations on air quality has led to a multitude of initiatives to develop sustainable solutions, which balance the often competing demands of environmental quality and economic growth. The absence of a common approach for the implementation of these regulations has led to a variety of isolated solutions. This suggests that there is a need for pooling knowledge to developing better and more efficient solutions, solutions which go beyond the obligations of the related EU directives, creating synergies through the share of know-how, knowledge and experiences. This paper presents the content and the approach of the European Project CITEAIR – Common Information to European Air which is co-funded by the INTERREG IIIC programme. The project started in March 2004 and will be finished in February 2007. The main focus of the project is the further development and deployment of IST-tools, methods and policies for the efficient management of the urban environment and to inform the public on the environmental situation in a common format.
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    CITEAIR – Common Information to European Air
    (Informatics for Environmental Protection - Networking Environmental Information, 2005) Hodges, Nick; van den Elshout, Sef; Heich, Hermann-Josef; Lad, Chetan; Léger, Karine; Nussio, Fabio
    Air quality is becoming a major issue for European citizens, as they become more aware of its impact on their health. The number of days where pollution levels exceed acceptable thresholds, the severity of diseases and their impact on society are of increasing concern each year. This has encouraged 11 European cities and regions to collaborate in the CITEAIR project to develop tools and technologies which will provide a better assessment of urban air quality, support local action plans and policies for abating air quality problems. An Internet platform is being developed to inform the public on actual air quality situations, which will also enable comparisons between different European urban environments. The paper provides an overview of the approach of the CITEAIR project, and then focuses on the development of a proposed Common Air Quality Index (CAQI) and the implementation of a Common Operational Website (COW). The COW is an interactive website designed to automatically collect air quality data from monitoring sites in participating European cities and to present these data in a simplified format. This together with adoption of the CAQI will facilitate easy comparisons of air quality and exchange of ideas on improving air quality across Europe. CITEAIR invites European cities and regions to collaborate with the project by providing their air quality data for publication on the COW, together with examples of successful environmental management actions for use as case studies. This cooperation, at an early stage, will seek to ensure that the protocols and procedures for data-transfer, evaluation and presentations that are currently under development will meet the needs of the wider community.
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    Environmental Assessment of Transport Demand Management Strategies in European Cities
    (Sustainability in the Information Society, 2001) Tomassini, Maurizio; Heich, Hermann-Josef
    Road traffic is a major source for airand noise pollution in urban areas. The implementation of already existing and forthcoming EUregulations on the assessment and management of air quality concentrations and noise levels in urban areas calls for innovative tools supporting the decision makers in the identification of strategies suitable to reduce the environmental burden an improving the quality of life for the population in urban agglomerations. The HEAVEN3 project addresses a common environmental problem — increasing traffic levels in large urban areas and the resulting adverse environmental impacts. In the framework of this project a Decision Support System (DSS) able to evaluate the environmental effects (air quality and noise quality — both emissions and dispersion forecasting) of near real-time traffic flows and Transportation Demand Management Strategies (TDMS) in large urban areas is under development. This system will be able to evaluate the environmental impacts for actual traffic situations and for planned TDMS and is composed of a number of modelling modules and operator interfaces. The application and demonstration sites are situated in 6 European cities participating to the project (Berlin, Rome, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam and Leicester).
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    Modelling Regional Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions: An Information and Scenario Tool for Practitioners
    (Sustainability in the Information Society, 2001) Tomassini, Maurizio; Heich, Hermann-Josef
    Road traffic is a major source for air- and noise pollution in urban areas. The implementation of already existing and forthcoming EU- regulations on the assessment and management of air quality concentrations and noise levels in urban areas calls for innovative tools supporting the decision makers in the identification of strategies suitable to reduce the environmental burden an improving the quality of life for the population in urban agglomerations. The HEAVEN3 project addresses a common environmental problem — increasing traffic levels in large urban areas and the resulting adverse environmental impacts. In the framework of this project a Decision Support System (DSS) able to evaluate the environmental effects (air quality and noise quality — both emissions and dispersion forecasting) of near real-time traffic flows and Transportation Demand Management Strategies (TDMS) in large urban areas is under development. This system will be able to evaluate the environmental impacts for actual traffic situations and for planned TDMS and is composed of a number of modelling modules and operator interfaces. The application and demonstration sites are situated in 6 European cities participating to the project (Berlin, Rome, Paris, Prague, Rotterdam and Leicester).
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    The HEAVEN Approach to Environmental Assessment of City Wide TDMS
    (Environmental Communication in the Information Society - Proceedings of the 16th Conference, 2002) Heich, Hermann-Josef; Tomassini, Maurizio; di Taranto, Carlo
    Emissions of air pollutants and noise by road traffic is of particular concern to many European citizens. Despite emission reduction techniques, the quality of urban environment will remain on the agenda for the coming years, as a result of the continuous growth of road traffic. The Framework Directive [1] and Daughter Directives [2, 3] are addressing regular assessment of air quality through monitoring and modelling in agglomerations with more than 250.000 inhabitants. Articles 7.3 and 8 of the Framework Directive require Action Plans for the improvement of air quality and call for public information. The Clean Air for Europe programme (CAFE) within the 6th Environmental Action Plan is developing the thematic strategy for further reduction of air pollution and its effects. Next to air quality, the problem of noise is also of importance to most citizens. It is estimated that at least 20 % of EU population suffers from noise. In a proposal for a Noise Directive [4] larger cities need to produce noise maps and will have to develop Action Plans aiming to achieve noise limit values, which will be set on Member States’ level. Both air quality and noise have unquestionably adverse effects on human health. Because the dominant source in most urban areas for both types of environmental impacts is traffic it is a challenge for local authorities to find integrated solutions for the environmental and traffic problems in urban areas to increase the quality of life for European citizens. Informing the public on the environmental situation as it is integral part of the Framework Directive is also governed by other Directives [5, 6] which call for the development of respective information technologies. The HEAVEN Project as it is part of the IST-Programme is developing an Decision Support System (DSS) to assess the environmental impacts of urban traffic, identify environmental efficient Transport Demand Management Strategies (TDMS) and informing the public on the environmental situation. The DSS will support European harmonisation and effectiveness of the implementation of air quality and noise related European legislation.