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Welcome to the CARBOTRAF WEBSITE

A website about the project CARBOTRAF.
A decision support system for reducing CO2 and Black Carbon Emissions by Adaptive Traffic Management.
We will keep you informed on the recent developements and up-date this website frequently with all information on the project.
Read all about the project partners and the latest related news on black carbon.

NEWS 
News - Stakeholder Workshop held in Graz on Feb.17th

On Friday Feb. 17th the CARBOTRAF project team held a succesful stakeholder workshop with representatives of the city of Graz authorities and the state of Styria to identify the major topics to address for realizing a reduction of traffic related CO2 and black carbon emissions.

The CARBOTRAF project team thanks all attendees for their participation, their support of the CARBOTRAF project and the lively and fruitful discussions during the meeting.

The stakeholder workshops are organized by the CARBOTRAF project together with the major stakeholders of the planned test areas in Graz and Glasgow to assure that the goals of the project, reduction of traffic related CO2 and black carbon emissions, can be reached.

The Project 
The CARBOTRAF project aims to realize a method, system and tools for adaptively influencing traffic in real-time to reduce carbon dioxide CO2 and black carbon (BC) emissions caused by road transport in urban and inter-urban areas.

The inter-relationships between traffic states and CO2 and BC emissions will be investigated.

In particular a model linking traffic states to emission levels will be established on the basis of existing and new simulation methods and tools.

A decision support system for online prediction of emission levels will use real-time and simulted traffic and air-quality data.

Based on the prediction a low emission traffic scenario will be achieved by imposing ITS measures (re-routing, adjustment of traffic light sequences).

The Objectives 
- Create a proven concept involving sensors & technologies for CO2 adn BC emissions reduction for urban traffic.
- Investigate BC emission factors and integrate with traffic and air quality models.
- Create and refine a traffic data sensor for sensing emission relevant traffic parameters
- Create a decision support system and tools with a catalogue of traffic scenarios to support traffic control centres towards adaptive traffic mamagement aimed at emission reduction
- Use the test sites in different European countries in order to evaluate the results independently
- Provide a handbook with recommendations for emission reduction strategies
Facts & Figures 
Project Acronym:  CARBOTRAF
Project Type: Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP)
Programme:   7th EU Framework Programme
Project Coordinator:  Martin Litzenberger, AIT Austria / Institute of Technology GmbH
Start Date: September 1st, 2011
End Date: August 31st, 2014 
Total Cost: 4.472.545,00 €
EU Funding:3.060.000,00 €

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