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Mobility Planning to Improve Air Quality

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Mobility using vehicles with internal combustion engines is one of the major sources of pollutant emissions in urban areas the world over. This article reviews some relevant actions of cities to reduce such emissions and proposes strategies to improve their effectiveness. One particularly important challenge is the electrification of buses, requiring an infrastructure plan to ensure the fleet can operate. The metropolitan region of Barcelona has mobility planning and also a plan to improve air quality. This article examines their compatibility and proposes a joint action to make the most of synergies and achieve the targets in terms of reducing pollution. The urgent need to improve air quality also demands commitment on the part of all parties involved to act together and agree future actions to be carried out.

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Abbreviations

ZeEUS:

Zero Emission Urban Bus System

pdM:

Mobility Master Plan

PIRVEC:

Strategic plan for the deployment of charging infrastructure for the electric vehicle in Catalonia

P&R:

Park and Ride

DKV:

Insurance policies

LEZ:

Low Emission Zones

WHO:

The World Health Organisation

CREAL:

Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology

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  1. The Metropolitan Transport Authority of Barcelona (ATM), Muntaner Street 315-321, zip code 08021, Barcelona, Spain

    Lluís Alegre Valls

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    Gereon Meyer

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Alegre Valls, L. (2019). Mobility Planning to Improve Air Quality. In: Müller, B., Meyer, G. (eds) Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99756-8_9

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