Effective transport planning, and its detailed consideration of air quality and climate change impacts, represents an important step in improving air quality by maintaining levels that meet statuary requirements and future improvements.
Until recently, combining road traffic datasets (traffic counts, strategic traffic modelling and microsimualtion traffic modelling data) with proven and effective air quality modelling tools has proved to be challenging. This has inhibited the ability of planning authorities, transport authorities and transport planners to rapidly evaluate the spatial impact of traffic scenarios in terms of air quality emissions and concentrations.
RapidAir has been designed to address this limitation and provides the opportunity for transport planners to readily quantify the air quality impacts of detailed road traffic scenarios in terms of traffic emissions and concentrations at relevant receptor locations. RapidAir has been linked with numerous traffic modelling software solutions including Simulation and Assignment of Traffic in Urban Road Networks (SATURN) and PTV VISSIM to support the environmental objectives of local authorities such as Leicestershire County Council.
