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VAPIS simulator #3

Open d-saikrishna opened 8 months ago

d-saikrishna commented 8 months ago

Most available tools to study air pollution are complex (state-of-the-art) and data-intensive (multi-purpose). This makes it difficult for practitioners from data-scarce low and middle income countries to support decision making in reducing air pollution. UrbanEmissions.info has been developing SIM-air family of tools (“Simple Interactive Models for better air quality) to fight this challenge. These tools help in building pollution scenarios for city managers thus aiding decision making. All tools can be explored here: Tools

These tools were initially built on Microsoft Excel. They primarily are Linear Programming problems. The tools have always been open to use - users can download the Excel sheets. In an attempt to open-source these tools, we are now writing Python codes to solve the Linear programming problems.

Two such codes are:

  1. AQI Simulator
  2. Waste Management Simulator

Streamlit was used to deploy them as applications.

This issue is to open-source the VAPIS simulator (Vehicular Air Pollution Information System). It is a vehicular emissions calculator to estimate and compare total vehicle exhaust emissions by vehicle-age and run scenarios. The tool and supporting manuals can be accessed here: VAPIS | UEInfo.

rahulporuri commented 4 weeks ago

If this is an issue that external contributors can pick up, adding additional information will be necessary.