"UK" Green Infrastructure for roadside air quality mitigation: unblocking a UK policy impasse

“英国”缓解路边空气质量的绿色基础设施：打破英国政策僵局

• 批准号: NE/S013814/1
• 负责人: A. MacKenzie
• 金额: $ 15.38万
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS013814%2F1
• 关键词: UK; Green; Infrastructure; roadside; air

This Innovation project for impact will bring together policy and practice leaders concerned with how planning decisions affect urban air quality. The overarching aim is to make a software platform for the quantitative assessment of Green Infrastructure as an aid to the improvement of roadside air quality. We call this platform GI4RAQ. Our particular objectives can be summarised as: 1. to provide a consolidated, open-source, computer modelling code for roadside air pollution in urban settings based on our existing research code.2. to co-design of a fit-for-purpose, simple, and attractive GI4RAQ platform for urban practitioners as a front-end to the consolidated model code.3. to demonstrate that the GI4RAQ platform can unlock a critical impasse in current planning policy and so enable capacity-building on the regulatory and consultancy sides of the planning process. We will work with major influencers in the private and public sectors, which offers a rapid and cost-effective route to meaningful impact. Specifically, we will work with Transport for London and the Greater London Authority to influence the next issue of the London Plan. To be released towards the end of 2019, a proposed new policy requiring larger-scale developments to be 'Air Quality Positive' may be implemented, but only if tools exist to evidence such a result at planning. We will work with the UK's leading air quality consultants, Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) and Ricardo Energy & Environment, to ensure that the GI4RAQ platform is fit for operational use and that it can be used alongside current Air Quality tools. London's 33 Local Authorities must ensure their Local Plans conform to the London Plan, and Authorities across the UK look to the London Plan in preparing their own Local Plans, both of which provide cascading impact for our proposed work. The project is designed to dovetail with 'WM Air', a large multi-partner programme focused on West Midlands' air quality led by the University of Birmingham. The GI4RAQ Principal Investigator leads the work stream on green infrastructure in WM Air alongside GI4RAQ partner Birmingham City Council, thereby ensuring rapid knowledge transfer between research and practice in London and Birmingham.The project will establish a robust approach to 'GI4RAQ' interventions to deliver reliable improvements in roadside air quality, based on quantitative computer modelling but avoiding the time and expense of full fluid flow simulations. The approach develops directly out of a NERC Innovation Pathfinder, which established that a strong demand for quantitative GI4RAQ exists, but also identified the policy impasse, and a placement of the researcher co-Investigator in Transport for London.

这个创新项目的影响将汇集政策和实践的领导者关注规划决策如何影响城市空气质量。总体目标是建立一个定量评估绿色基础设施的软件平台，以帮助改善路边空气质量。我们称这个平台为GI4RAQ。我们的具体目标可以概括为：1。根据我们现有的研究代码，为城市环境中的路边空气污染提供一个综合的、开放源代码的计算机模拟代码。为城市从业者共同设计一个适用、简单、有吸引力的GI4RAQ平台，作为统一模型代码的前端。证明GI4RAQ平台可以打破当前规划政策的关键僵局，从而促进规划过程监管和咨询方面的能力建设。我们将与私营和公共部门的主要影响者合作，这为产生有意义的影响提供了快速且具有成本效益的途径。具体来说，我们将与伦敦交通局和大伦敦管理局合作，影响伦敦计划的下一期。一项拟议的新政策将于2019年底发布，要求大型开发项目达到“空气质量积极”，但只有在规划时有工具证明这一结果的情况下，才可能实施。我们将与英国领先的空气质量顾问公司剑桥环境研究顾问公司（CERC）和里卡多能源与环境公司合作，确保GI4RAQ平台适合运营使用，并可与当前的空气质量工具一起使用。伦敦的33个地方当局必须确保他们的地方计划符合伦敦计划，英国各地的当局在制定自己的地方计划时都要参考伦敦计划，这两个计划都对我们拟议的工作产生了连锁影响。该项目旨在与“WM Air”相吻合，这是一个由伯明翰大学领导的大型多合作伙伴计划，专注于西米德兰兹郡的空气质量。GI4RAQ首席研究员与GI4RAQ合作伙伴伯明翰市理事会一起领导WM Air的绿色基础设施工作流程，从而确保伦敦和伯明翰的研究和实践之间的快速知识转移。该项目将建立一个强大的“GI4RAQ”干预方法，以可靠地改善路边空气质量，基于定量计算机建模，但避免了全流体流动模拟的时间和费用。该方法直接从NERC创新探路者中发展出来，该探路者确定了对定量GI4RAQ的强烈需求，但也确定了政策僵局，以及伦敦交通研究员联合研究员的位置。

项目成果

Chemistry, transport, emission, and shading effects on NO2 and Ox distributions within urban canyons.

• DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120347
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: Environmental pollution
• 影响因子: 8.9
• 作者: Yuqing Dai;Xiaoming Cai;Jian Zhong;A. Mazzeo;A. MacKenzie

Feasibility Study Report, 'Eastville Junction: A Green Place - A Cool Place'

可行性研究报告，“伊斯特维尔枢纽：一个绿色的地方——一个凉爽的地方”

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Churchman Thornhill Finch

Introducing the Green Infrastructure for Roadside Air Quality (GI4RAQ) Platform: Estimating Site-Specific Changes in the Dispersion of Vehicular Pollution Close to Source

路边空气质量绿色基础设施 (GI4RAQ) 平台简介：估算靠近源头的车辆污染扩散的特定地点变化

• DOI: 10.3390/f12060769
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Forests
• 影响因子: 2.9
• 作者: Pearce H

Green Infrastructure for Clean Air and One Health, in Policy Solutions to the Clean Air Challenge

清洁空气挑战的政策解决方案中的绿色基础设施，促进清洁空气和同一个健康

• 发表时间: 2022
• 作者: Levine JG

Traffic-induced multicomponent ultrafine particle microphysics in the WRF v3.6.1 large eddy simulation model: General behaviour from idealised scenarios at the neighbourhood-scale

WRF v3.6.1 大涡模拟模型中交通引起的多组分超细颗粒微物理：邻里尺度理想化场景的一般行为

• DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2019.117213
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Atmospheric Environment
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: Zhong J