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The aim of this pilot project is to identify the most polluting vehicles on the roads and encourage their owners to clean or replace the less polluting car.
In half a second, the remote measurement equipment performs about a hundred measurements on the exhaust gases of each vehicle. At the same time, your license plate number, speed and weather conditions are recorded. This equipment is mobile, easy and quick to install, built on single lane road sections.
The project is scheduled for completion in late summer. After evaluating its results, the possibility of remote monitoring of pollution in Lithuania on a regular basis will be considered.
Tested in many parts of the world
Transport pollution was measured remotely in Sweden, Spain, Denmark, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, the United States, Germany, and other countries. For example, in some states in the US, the most and least polluting vehicles are identified, their owners are notified, and they are asked to go check emissions. Owners of less polluting cars are informed that their vehicle’s air emissions will not be checked during the next periodic roadworthiness test.
In Spain it has been possible to identify cases of manipulation of heavy vehicles, and criminal proceedings have even been initiated against those responsible for the health of the population.
The European Commission supports and promotes remote measurement of pollution from cars. The benefits of remote control of vehicle pollution are also confirmed by the EC’s research unit, the Joint Research Center. The technical report for the evaluation of this system establishes that remote pollution measurement technology is a viable way to manage transport pollution by identifying the most and least polluting vehicles.
Fleet studies with remote sensing equipment in other European countries confirm that vehicle emissions in real driving conditions are higher than those allowed by European standards. Many new cars, especially those that run on diesel, also do not meet these standards, and some of them have emissions of particulate matter or nitrogen oxides similar to those of much older cars.
Transportation is the biggest polluter
According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the road transport sector in Lithuania emits 62%. Total annual nitrogen oxide emissions, 13 percent. carbon monoxide and 23 percent. particulate matter PM2.5.
In Lithuania, the level of pollution from cars is determined during mandatory technical inspection of vehicles, as well as during joint raids by the police, EPA and the Department of Environmental Protection. 2020 The inspection of 261 vehicles on the country’s roads revealed 12 cases in which the emissions of pollutants to the ambient air exceeded the limit values.
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