Air Quality Issues & Current
Actions
Iris Coghill
Environmental Manager
Environment Department
Dundee City Council
iris.coghill@dundeecity.gov.uk
OVERVIEW
 Historical Context
 Comparison of Health Impacts
 EC Directives and the UK National Air
Quality Strategy
 Local Air Quality Management Process
 Review and Assessment
 Air Quality Management Areas
 Action Plans
 Scottish Transport Emission Partnership
DUNDEE PRIOR TO CLEAN AIR
ACTS (1956-1968)
Date
Oct-80
Apr-80
Oct-79
Apr-79
Oct-78
Apr-78
Oct-77
Apr-77
Oct-76
Apr-76
Oct-75
Apr-75
Oct-74
Apr-74
Oct-73
Apr-73
Oct-72
Apr-72
Oct-71
Apr-71
Oct-70
Apr-70
Oct-69
Apr-69
Oct-68
Apr-68
Oct-67
Apr-67
Oct-66
Apr-66
Oct-65
Apr-65
Oct-64
Apr-64
Oct-63
Apr-63
Oct-62
Apr-62
Oct-61
Apr-61
ug/m 3
AIR POLLUTION MONITORING 1961-1982
Average Smoke concentrations in Dundee 1961 - 1982
250
200
150
100
50
0
DUNDEE-TODAY
Comparison of Health
Impacts
Comparison of Premature Deaths in the UK by Cause
90000
80000
70000
60000
50000
40000
30000
20000
10000
0
Air Pollution
Smoking
Alcoholism
Obesity
Road Traffic
Accidents
LOCAL AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT
(REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT)
 Assess whether the
objectives are breached
at relevant locations
 Relevant locations –
public exposure
 Staged Process
 Updating & Screening
Assessments
 Progress Reports
 Detailed Assessments
 Declare an AQMA
 Further Assessment
 Action Plan
National Air Quality Objectives
 NO2 Objective (EU and Scottish)
- Annual mean - 40ugm-3
- 1 hour mean 200ugm-3 (18 exceedances permitted
each year)
 PM10 Objective
- Annual mean - 18ugm-3 (EU 40ugm-3)
- 24-hour mean 50ugm-3 not to be exceeded more
than 7 times a year (EU 50ugm-3 not to be
exceeded more than 35 times a year)
MONITORING
NO2 diffusion tube
Continuous automatic monitors
Computer Air Pollution Dispersion
Modelling
DUNDEE’s AQMA for NO2 &
PM10
AQAP MEASURES
 Encourage Modal Shift
 Increase Cleaner Vehicle Usage
 Road Infrastructure / Traffic Management
 ECO STARS (Fleet Recognition Scheme)
Encourage Modal Shift
Cleaner & Greener Vehicles
 Vehicle emission
testing & idling vehicle
enforcement
 Green vehicle
procurement
 Eco-driving
 LEZ/Charter?
 Taxi licensing?
Road Infrastructure and
Traffic Management
 Junction alterations
 Enhance Urban Traffic
Management Control
Systems
 Tactran Freight Quality
Partnership
(Freight and Commercial
vehicle route planning)
 Partnership Working
with Bus Operators
ECOSTARS
(FLEET RECOGNITION SCHEME)
The ECO Stars scheme is
voluntary, and seen as an
appropriate way to provide public
recognition for operators of
commercial vehicles who are
active in taking steps
 To improve efficiency
 Reduce fuel consumption and
 Reduce the impact on local air
quality and maximising carbon
savings
 Guidance for further financial
and environmental savings
Scottish Transport Emission
Partnership
Useful Websites/Twitter
www.scottishairquality.co.uk
www.airquality.co.uk
www.defra.gov.uk
Scottish Transport Emissions Partnership (STEP)
have set up a twitter account at:
https://twitter.com/step_scotland