Comparing and presenting city-level transportation CO2 emissions using GIS

Waygood, Edward Owen D.; Waygood, Edward Owen D; Chatterton, Tim; Avineri, Erel

Abstract

In 2011, the European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR) inventory of diffuse emissions became available, providing data on a range of atmospheric emissions at a 5km resolution across Europe. The data are produced from spatially disaggregated emissions totals for countries, and must be validated before being used at a sub-national level. The UK government maintains a 1km resolution emissions inventory based on a bottom-up methodology by which a validation is possible. The UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory data are used to assess at what geographic scale the new E-PRTR data might be most useful. This paper compares the two data sets and estimates city-level transportation CO2 emissions for 149 EU cities. We find that at a functional boundary level the two datasets match well. © 2013.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2013
• Journal: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
• Print ISSN: 1361-9209
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Not Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 24
• Pages: 127-134
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.06.006
• Keywords: CO2 emissions, urban environment functional boundary level, european union, transport, cities
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/927474
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trd.2013.06.006