Most available tools are complex and data-intensive and there is a need for a new generation of tools that recognize the cities information gaps and institutional challenges. There is also a need to rapidly scale-up the use of analytical tools for not only the rapidly expanding megacities but also secondary and tertiary cities with significant air pollution problems. Modern information, technology, and networking advances offer a tremendous opportunity to develop these tools to help city managers, regulators, academia, and the citizen groups to develop a coordinated knowledge base and analytical approaches to address integrated urban air quality management in an effective manner.

The main objective of the SIM-air family of tools is to make use of the best available information to arrive at estimates of key parameters (e.g. emissions from various sources) and simulate the interactions between emissions, pollution dispersion, impacts, and management options in an environmental and economic context. The tools under the SIM-air family are integrated, free, and plug & play in nature. The tools are also modular, where user can break the tools to individual components (by sectors) to evaluate the emissions and the pollution control interventions.

Browse the available tools - VAPIS, Smart-CART, AQI calculator, and HIC-UP.

For more details visit SIM-air information Page

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