On March 30th we hosted EMISSIONS & AIR QUALITY Smart Class, South 2022 at Browns Courtrooms, Covent Garden. This Smart Class gave a fresh take on deploying the latest digital technology-enabled solutions, data-driven strategies and best practices to improve urban air quality and drive down emissions and air pollution in our cities and regions.
Our film maker captured the keynotes and innovator presentations for additional stakeholders to enjoy post-event!
If you satisfy our regular delegate qualification criteria but were unable to join us on the day for the live in person event, just complete the short application form below and we’ll give you free access to the presentation videos, recordings and slides.
Our inspirational keynotes included: Transport for London’s Head of Air Quality, Environment & Technology, Dan Champion (leading the sponsorship of the Mayor of London’s and TfL’s investment in air quality, environment and operational technology); Southampton City Council’s Sustainable Projects and Air Quality Programme Lead, George O’Ferrall, and Solent Transport’s FTZ Project Manager, Rob Gloyns; and Chair of BESA’s Health & Well-being in Buildings Group, Nathan Wood. Dan, George, Rob and Nathan provided invaluable real-world insights into emissions and air quality strategies, ongoing programmes and challenges, digital visions, collaborative initiatives, and adoptions of emerging, transformative technologies and data driven outcomes.
The Smart Class also featured innovator presentations by leading technology experts and thought leaders, including Brightly Software’s full carbon reduction strategy lead, Hannah Winstanley; Alina Schuprin and Anna Filby from ioki – a DB company; and Marston Holdings’ Director of Environment, Nick Ruxton-Boyle. Each innovator speaker represented distinct emissions and air quality innovation themes and priority areas of application, and subsequently hosted (with support from expert colleagues) confidential, deeper dive, roundtable discussions with all delegates in attendance. Additional networking was facilitated over breakfast and a cooked lunch.
Key topics addressed included:
- Innovative technology for a cleaner London;
- London’s green recovery – Getting back on the road to 2030;
- Pandemic and post-pandemic impact on London travel trends and air pollution;
- Expansion of London’s ULEZ, the direct vision standard (DVS) for HGVs, EV charging infrastructure and other innovative TfL schemes;
- Monitoring and predicting air pollution across boroughs;
- Low emission neighbourhoods and school streets;
- Air quality and highway operations – How to track, analyse, recommend and predict the impact;
- Building a baseline carbon footprint of road assets and roll-up data across assets portfolios;
- Smarter assets, sustainable communities;
- Integrating climate change policies, affordable and clean energy and zero carbon target setting;
- Utilising innovative transport solutions to tackle Southampton’s air quality challenge;
- The Solent FTZ programme: improving air quality with e-scooters, virtual parking, bikeshare, lift sharing, sustainable urban logistics and MaaS application;
- Port of Southampton: addressing the unique challenges of shipping, ports and industry pollutants;
- Low emission taxi incentive scheme, telematics scheme (building the case for EVs), clean bus retrofit scheme
- Saving 15 million tonnes of CO2 through the introduction of demand responsive transport (DRT);
- How mobility analytics can help you to reach climate goals through new mobility offers;
- Why autonomous transport will be an increasingly important building block in the development of zero emission public transport;
- Can demand responsive transport help reduce congestion by reducing the use of private cars in the UK?;
- Opening the door to air quality ‘Safe Havens’;
- Indoor air quality for the health and well-being of building occupants – BESA guidance and best practice;
- How air quality data gathered during specialist surveys or from real-time and continuous IAQ monitoring devices can be interpreted and acted upon;
- Air pollution alert for London and the South East – data trends;
- Data led air quality improvement and transport decarbonisation;
- How the use of smart city technology and digital enforcement can generate a platform in which public support can be gained and maintained through good data collection and visualisation;
- ULEZ monitoring, geofencing, enabling hyperlocal air quality monitoring and managing LEZs/CAZs with digital ANPR;
- Design and planning of AQ interventions;
- Monitoring network, behaviour change and CAZ/LEZ case studies – Neath Port Talbot, Reading, Bath & North East Somerset etc
Those qualifying to receive the presentation videos and rich media content from this event include commissioning, procurement, trialling and partnering leads, senior influencers, strategic decision makers and planners from: local authorities (e.g. city, borough, metropolitan, district and county councils); public and private transport operators/service providers; sub-regional transport bodies, combined authorities, integrated transport authorities and passenger transport executives; road operators and highways authorities; freight and logistics operators; airports and port operators; vehicle manufacturers; energy providers; potential partners from industry (e.g. retail, construction, manufacturing and waste management sectors) and healthcare; DfT, Defra, EA, BEIS, DHSC and supporting national agencies; prime contractors etc.
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