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The special mobile equipment, a green box, is installed in various parts of the capital, on the edge of single-lane streets with a hill.
The manufacturer’s advanced Opus RSE measurement technology, which measures nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and particulate matter in vehicles, performs approximately 100 measurements on the exhaust gases of each vehicle in 0.5 seconds. The equipment also scans the vehicle’s license plate number and additional indicators: ambient air temperature, vehicle speed.
“Until now, no one has measured the actual pollution from cars. Service stations inspect the engine and equipment of the Environmental Protection Agency for the most dangerous pollutants. The new meters will show the condition of cars on the road. of the city, and we will see the consequences of the cut catalysts and the eliminated filters in the quality of the air in real time until the smallest particles ”, says the minister of Environment Simonas Gentvilas.
According to the minister, accurate data on the situation of automobile pollution on the city’s streets will allow creating a more adequate legal regulation. The indicators collected in Vilnius will be used for further data analysis, to assess the pollution of the vehicle in real driving conditions, taking into account its technical parameters, such as its age, fuel type and category.
The televigilance contractor of the Ministry of the Environment plans to carry out the UAB Fima contractor in the capital at the end of the summer.
After evaluating the results of the pilot project, consideration will be given to remote pollution monitoring in Lithuania on a regular basis to identify polluting vehicles in the country and inform their owners about the status of such vehicles by encouraging them to clean.
The European Commission supports and promotes remote sensing of automobile pollution. Transport pollution is measured remotely in Sweden, Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and elsewhere.
In the last week of June, during the environmental campaign in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda and Šiauliai, after inspecting almost 200 cars in the traditional way, the amount of pollutants in almost a tenth of the cars exceeded the allowed limits.
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the road transport sector in Lithuania emits 62 percent. Total annual emissions of nitrogen oxide, 14 percent. carbon monoxide and 23 percent. particulate matter content. Since 2005, the impact of transport on the climate, that is, air pollution with greenhouse gases, has increased by 49%.
