The Instrumented City (IC) is a suite of research facilities dedicated to transport and environment issues. Facilities include an extensive range of state-of-the-art traffic, vehicle emission, meteorological, noise and air pollution monitoring instrumentation. The complimentary facilities are allowing researchers to study traffic flow and congestion - emission generation - dispersing air-flows - atmospheric chemistry - noise and air pollution simultaneously. The real excitement of the Instrumented City Facility, is that it is multidisciplinary, bringing together researchers from the disciplines of traffic engineering, dispersion modelling, atmospheric chemistry and noise. Key facilities, that are in continuous operation include: an 'instrumented junction' and a 'roadside laboratory'. At the urban 'instrumented junction' research site simultaneous measurements are collected over a 1 km2 area including: traffic, speed and journey times (ANPR entry/ exits), synoptic and in-street wind speed/ direction/ turbulence, broadband noise levels, air pollution (NO/NO2/NO(x), O3, Particle Number Count) at three roadside and one local background site. These co-ordinated measurements lend themselves to detailed urban traffic, junction and street canyon studies, including the development/ calibration and validation of micro-scale traffic, noise and dispersion models. The 'roadside laboratory' facility provides researchers with a platform to operate prototype and emerging instrumentation, such as particle size analysers.
The Instrumented City: Monitoring transport and the environment
2008
4 Seiten, 1 Bild, 1 Tabelle, 4 Quellen
Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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Tema Archiv | 1993
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British Library Conference Proceedings | 1993
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Online Contents | 2002
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Online Contents | 1996
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