This tool is designed to support the sensitivity test being incorporated into air quality assessments of new developments carried out by Air Quality Consultants. This sensitivity test relies on the results of the review of in-service emissions from diesel vehicles prepared by Dr Ben Marner of Air Quality Consultants (review available here). CURED provides the necessary emissions for modelling studies.
Air Quality Consultants is making this calculator freely available for others to use when carrying out modelling studies. This will help ensure consistency in the approach to air quality assessments, minimising confusion for officers receiving air quality reports accompanying planning applications. All that is required is that users acknowledge Air Quality Consultants Ltd as the source of the information.
The full sensitivity test, which is designed to provide a ‘reasonable worst-case assessment’, needs to make use of the CURED spreadsheet, together with adjustments to the Defra background maps as described in a separate report (here)
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