Air Quality Assessment
The Air Quality Team at TRL has worked on air quality assessments for more than twenty years and in local air quality management since the advent of local air quality management frameworks in the 1990s. Work has supported the understanding of air quality issues from the local to the European level. TRL has an in-depth understanding of the technical and policy aspects of air quality and emissions assessments, built around expertise in dispersion modelling, emissions analysis and monitoring.
Services include:
Supporting the planning process:
- Air quality chapters for environmental impact assessments (EIA), including odour, demolition and construction
- Review of third-party assessments
- Expert witness and testimony
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Advice on mitigation strategies
Local air quality management support for local authorities:
- Progress Reports
- Updating and Screening Assessments
- Detailed Assessments
- Further Assessments
- Action Plans
- Policy development
Research:
- Developing new tools for modelling emissions and understanding effects of policy interventions
- Supporting the development of national and international policy and regulation
Complementary services include:
- Stakeholder engagement
- Peer review services
- Design and implementation of pollution mitigation strategies
- Monitoring frameworks
- Assistance with Local Transport Plans and Local Implementation Plans
- Comprehensive emissions analysis
- Roadside vehicle emissions testing
- Combined air pollution and noise monitoring (see noise and vibration)
- Compliance monitoring
- Data provision via the TRL airweb website www.trlairweb.co.uk
- Carbon footprinting and assessment
Click here for more information on TRL's services for planning and air quality
Click here for more information on TRL's air quality services for local authorities
For further information contact:
Tim Barlow Tel: 01344 770669 Email: tbarlow@trl.co.uk
