Development of Interactive Monitoring System for Urban Environmental Impact Assessment of Transport System

All countries worldwide have a global problem with environmental pollution. One of its main reasons is a negative impact of transport. In such situation, research, assessment and monitoring of this negative environmental impact are the best tools, which could support decision-making process concerning approaches and measures to reduce or to eliminate its consequences and, thereby, could help to address this challenge. This research paper considers emissions of the motor transport system as an air pollution source as well as describes an issue of its assessment and monitoring, especially, in the large cities. Unfortunately, traditional air monitoring systems are unable to present a complex spatial structure of pollution fields for different pollutants, especially, in real time. To solve this problem, an interactive monitoring system was proposed and tested on the example of Nizhny Novgorod (Russian Federation). This system contains a calculation module, which is based on the actual information about traffic flows and weather conditions. It allows to estimate concentrations of chosen pollutants and population health risk in the chosen monitoring points in online mode. The proposed system can be applied to any place with the similar initial situation.