Showcasing Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Air Quality Visualisation and Eco-Friendly Highway Travels (Eco-Highways)

Clytell和Costain Limited在过去的18个月里为英国高速公路开发了一个排放可视化平台的原型。该原型被命名为生态公路，它有三个主要组成部分：（i）生态公路应用程序，（ii）生态公路API，和（iii）生态公路城市监测。生态公路和三个组成部分将用于演示以下内容：（1）生态公路应用程序：生态公路应用程序是一个旅行规划器，将实时演示高速公路上NO2和CO排放的可视化。该应用程序将为高速公路用户提供沿着的排放水平。(2)生态公路API：该API将演示如何使用生态公路的流式排放数据，将现有地图服务（如谷歌地图、苹果地图）的服务范围扩展到排放可视化。(3)生态公路城市监测：生态公路城市监测器将演示公路和地方当局如何实时可视化实际的NO2和CO水平。Eco-Highways City Monitor还将展示公路和地方当局如何利用该平台设计和测试量身定制的排放政策。生态公路将通过减轻污染物排放（NO2和CO）对人类健康的破坏性后果而使英国人口受益。生态高速公路在英国高速公路上的出现恰逢其时，因为英国高速公路上的污染物排放量迅速增加，造成了一些健康恐慌，特别是在儿童和弱势成年人中。生态高速公路将有助于解决与癌症、中风、哮喘、心脏病、痴呆症等有关的NO2和CO排放问题。皇家医师学院根据英国每年仅NO2就造成的估计40，000人死亡支持这一担忧。EEA（2016）显示，英国每年因NO2死亡的人数最多，仅次于意大利。考虑到记录在案的高死亡率和未来5年将在127个主要道路计划上花费超过157亿英镑（英国道路投资战略，RS 1/RS 2，2016），英国政府现在面临巨大压力，寻求新的创新方法来减少高速公路。尽管人们对污染物排放的健康风险的认识有所提高，但没有工具提供NO2和CO的可视化。导航应用程序（如谷歌地图，苹果地图，Waze，Tomtom，AA路线规划器）仍然缺乏排放可视化功能，可以通过影响旅行行为来挽救几条生命。站在“量即知”的哲学观点上。如果你不能衡量它，你就不能改进它。生态公路将展示人工智能（AI）在英国高速公路上实时排放可视化。Eco-Highways使用物联网（IoT）仪器来捕获高速公路上准确的NO2和CO排放量。生态公路是一种创新工具，将影响生态友好型旅行行为和减少排放。该工具还将支持地方当局制定和测试减排政策的影响。

Clytell and Costain Limited have spent the last 18 months developing a prototype of an Emission Visualisation Platform for UK highways. The prototype is named Eco-Highways and it has three major components: (i) Eco-Highways App, (ii) Eco-Highways API, and (iii) Eco-Highways City Monitor. Eco-Highways and the three component parts will be used to demonstrate the following: (1) Eco-Highways App: The Eco-Highways app is a travel planner that will demonstrate the visualisation of NO2 & CO emissions on highways in real-time. The app will provide highway users with emissions levels along a journey route. (2) Eco-Highways API: The API will demonstrate how streamed emissions data from Eco-Highways could be used to extend the service offering of existing Map services (e.g. Google Maps, Apple Map) to emissions visualisation. (3) Eco-Highways City Monitor: The Eco-Highways City Monitor will demonstrate how highway and local authorities could visualise actual NO2 and CO levels in real-time. Eco-Highways City Monitor will also showcase how highway and local authorities can use the platform to design and test tailored emission policies. Eco-Highways will benefit the UK population by mitigating the devastating consequences that Pollutant emissions (NO2 and CO) have on human health. Eco-Highways is coming at the right time on UK highways because pollutants emissions are increasing rapidly on UK highways causing several health scares especially in children and vulnerable adults. Eco-Highways will help to solve NO2 and CO emission that have been linked to Cancer, Stroke, Asthma, Heart diseases, dementia, etc. The Royal College of Physicians backed this concern up based on the estimated 40,000 deaths that are caused in the UK by NO2 alone yearly. EEA (2016) reveals that the UK has the highest annual death from NO2 after Italy all over Europe. Considering the high recorded deaths and the over £15.7 billion to be spent on 127 major road schemes in the next 5 years (UK Road-Investment-Strategy, RS1/RS2, 2016), the UK Government is now under huge pressure seek new and innovative ways to reduce on highways. Despite the rise in the awareness of the health risks of pollutant emissions, no tools provides NO2 and CO visualisation. Navigation Apps (such as Google Maps, Apple Maps, Waze, Tomtom, AA route planner) still lack emission visualisation functionality that can save several lives by influencing travel behaviours. Standing on a philosophical viewpoint that “To measure is to know. If you cannot measure it you cannot improve it.”, Eco-Highways will showcase Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Emission Visualisation in Real-Time on UK Highways. Eco-Highways uses Internet of Things (IoT) Instrumentation to capture accurate NO2 and CO emissions on highways. Eco-Highways is an innovative tool that will influence eco-friendly travel behaviour and emission reduction. The tool will also support local authorities to devise and test the impact of emission reduction policies.