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Collaboration to stop idling coaches | |
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2019-05-29 | |
发布年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 英国 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
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Idling coaches in DartmouthTessa de Galleani, a town councillor from Dartmouth, came to the 5th AccessLab event in Plymouth with a specific problem that she wanted to address with the help of a scientist. Dartmouth is a small and beautiful town on the west bank of the River Dart in South Devon. In the summer months, Dartmouth is a particularly popular tourist destination and many tour coach companies make a stop on their tour of South Devon. The coach parking area is on Embankment Road, along the river bank in the town centre. On any given summer day, there are typically between 8-15 coaches parked to drop and collect their passengers for up to 20 minutes at a time. Collaborative research with PML researcherAt the AccessLab event, Tessa was paired with Dr Lee de Mora, a marine ecosystem modeller from Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Over the course of the workshop, Tessa and Lee did some collaborative research and found several resources about idling diesel engines, news articles from various towns in the UK that have implemented idling fines, and some scientific papers about the links between air pollution and deaths in the UK. In addition, Lee produced an estimate of the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted by the coaches while idling (approximately 4kg of CO2 per hour per vehicle). Council successArmed with this new evidence, Tessa convinced the County, District and Dartmouth councillors to ban idling in Dartmouth. Permissions and funding were put in place and four signs were erected along Dartmouth Embankment asking drivers to stop their engines idling. In addition, the Dartmouth police sergeant agreed to help and is now asking coach drivers to turn off their engines. |
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来源平台 | Plymouth Marine Laboratory |
文献类型 | 新闻 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/133104 |
专题 | 资源环境科学 |
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