Air pollution on topic at the Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution

Ben contributed to the annual Geography A-level Conference at the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution on Thursday 19^th November. Students from schools across North Somerset were taken on an ‘air pollution journey’ from Roman times through to the modern era and into the future. Questions from the students were wide and varied and a good discussion was had around current topical issues, including real-world driving emissions and Bath’s Air Quality Management Area.

 

The AQMRC contribute to Gatwick Airport Ltd's Air Quality Plan consultation response

The AQMRC were commissioned by Gatwick Airport Ltd to review the robustness of emission factors used as the basis for modelling within Defra’s proposed Air Quality Plan. Gatwick’s consultation response and our contribution to it, can be found here: http://gatwickairport.com/globalassets/publicationfiles/business_and_community/all_public_publications/second_runway/airports_commission/final_submitted_response_to_draft_air_quality_plan_3nov15.pdf

 

 

 

Routes to Clean Air conference success

The Air Quality Management Resource Centre was out in force at the recent Institute of Air Quality Management’s Routes to Clean Air conference, on the 22^nd and 23^rd of October. The event, co-organised by the AQMRC, the IAQM and Bristol City Council attracted over a hundred delegates keen to discuss issues surrounding vehicle emissions, mitigation measures and the future of air quality within the UK. Jim struck a chord with many delegates during his talk on ‘air quality in historical perspective – or why we fail to learn the lessons of history’. The conference also heard talks from Dr Eckard Helmers of the University of Applied Sciences, Trier on how diesel vehicle emissions may not actually reduce our CO₂ contribution compared to petrol vehicle emissions and Dr James Tate of the University of Leeds on how real-world emissions from vehicles are often different to those of type-approval testing.

 

All in all, the conference was deemed to be a great success with national media outlets running stories derived from a number of the speakers.  Jim’s presentation, along with others from the conference can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LyJ24uSbWc

 

 

Tim presenting at MODEshift Convention

Tim will be presenting the 'fleximobility' work (http://www.fleximobility.solutions) from the Disruption project today at the annual MODEshift Convention in Birmingham (http://www.modeshift.org.uk/convention).

MODEshift are the UK's leading sustainable travel organisation.