Scientists from the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at Aarhus University have developed a user-friendly highway model for air quality together with Ingenieurbüro Lohmeyer, Germany. The model is integrated into a GIS program and it will be useful for EIA, evaluation of air quality along highways and scenario analyses.

2010.07.02

Scientists from the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at Aarhus University have developed a user-friendly highway model for air quality together with Ingenieurbüro Lohmeyer, Germany. The model is integrated into a GIS program and it will be useful for EIA, evaluation of air quality along highways and scenario analyses.

In 2007 the first phase of the OML-Highway project was conducted by the National Environmental Research Institute (NERI) at Aarhus University to outline the overall specifications for a new user-friendly Danish highway air pollution model as a tool for environmental impact assessment and mapping of air quality along highways.

Within this report the implementation of OML-Highway into SELMA^GIS is described and potential model applications are outlined.

The new Danish Highway Air Pollution Model has a number of potential application areas, e.g. Environmental Impact Assessments, evaluation of modelled concentration in relation to EU ambient air quality limit values, systematic mapping of air quality and human exposure, and “what-if” scenario analyses. It also has the potential for further development to provide inputs on external costs of air pollution to be used in ranking of road investments based on cost-benefit analysis.

Contact: Senior scientist Steen Solvang Jensen, tel. +45-4630 1281, ssj@dmu.dk

OMLHighway within the framework of SELMAGIS. Final Report. Jensen, S.S., Becker, T., Ketzel, M., Løfstrøm, P., Olesen, H.R., Lorentz, H. 2010:  National Environmental Research Institute, Aarhus University, Denmark, 26 p, NERI Technical Report No. 771. Summary | Sammenfatning | Full report in pdf (1,94 MB)