HOW CLEAN IS THE
AIR YOU BREATHE?

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UTAQ - Urban Tool for Air Quality - is very easy to reach and use

CAMS/ECMWF

UTAQ is winner of a notice of CAMS, funded by ECMWF

A POWERFUL TOOL

A web application for a short-term response to air quality exceedance

CITIES

An Urban tool expressly aimed at cities and their decision makers and citizens

About UTAQ: a CAMS use-case

SCIENCE BASED

The methodology used in UTAQ for concentration computing is already shared and tested by JRC (Joint Research Centre) and background concentrations used are provided by CAMS.

VERY EASY TO USE

UTAQ (Urban Tool for Air Quality) is a web application easily accessible using any browser. It has a user-friendly interface both to input data to elaborate and navigate output with maps, tables and charts.

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AIR QUALITY YOU BREATHE

UTAQ helps to prevent exposure to pollution peak for “sensitive” citizens (children, asthmatics…) by providing them with the spatial and temporal variation of air quality is based on their location (via GPS) or desired path (to discover the least polluted trip…).

Enjoy UTAQ public version to see air quality in your position.

  • NEWS

UTAQ at CAMS USER WORKSHOP Italy

Roberta Gianfreda Sep 14, 2020

The Workshop will be online on on the mornings of 6 and 7 October 2020 and UTAQ will be presented on 6 October

UTAQ for Milan during the lockdown

utaqadmin Jun 24, 2020

How much did the reduction in road traffic during the COVID-19 lockdown affect the decrease in air pollution levels in Milan?

UTAQ on national and international scientific journals

utaqadmin Jun 24, 2020

The UTAQ methodology has been published in Ingegneria dell'Ambiente - Environmental Engineering - (2019) and in the Environmental Engineering Management Journal (2020)

CAMS and UTAQ use-case at ECOMONDO

utaqadmin Jun 23, 2020

From 5 to 8 November 2019, thanks to the UTAQ project, TerrAria has been a guest of the Copernicus stand at ECOMONDO.

TerrAria is an Innovative PMI (certified by the chamber of commerce) and was born in 1999 in Milan by the experience of a working group committed to the development of an innovative territorial-environmental information system capable of supporting the decision-maker in his planning function. TerrAria now counts on the contribution of a close-knit and multi-disciplinary team with an articulated know-how: computer scientists, physicists, planners and environmental and energy engineers.

OPEN WEBSITE

UTAQ (Urban Tool for Air Quality) is a European project funded ECMWF (European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts) by a CAMS tender (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service). UTAQ (Urban Tool for Air Quality) is a Web application that allows to analyse current and forecasted air quality on an urban scale at high resolution (10-50 m). On the one hand UTAQ allows citizens, municipal technicians and epidemiologists to evaluate and then to limit air quality exposition thanks to the GPS position, on the other hand it allows urban planners and decisions makers to evaluate the impact of fleet and traffic limitations to manage emergency conditions of air quality exceedances.

DOWNLOAD PDF

On the occasion of participation in ecomondo and to obtain informative and evocative material on UTAQ, an explanatory brochure and a poster used as a totem at the ECOMONDO stand were produced during the 18 months of the project.
From this page you can download both.

Download leaflet (front)

Download leaflet (back)

Download totem

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