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CITEAIR – Common Information to European Air
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2004
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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.