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Determine the emission of your region: discover FASTRACE

Do you want to create an air pollution model on city or regional level? The software tool FASTRACE will provide you with the input that you need. This software makes it easy to determine the emission of the road transport in your region, divided by their category.  

What is FASTRACE?  

FASTRACE is a software tool developed by VITO. It’s a versatile tool that can be used to calculate the emission of a whole country or for a (small) region or city.  

What can FASTRACE be used for?  

  • Quantify and visualise the emission of road transport for a certain road network on district, city or county level.
  • Create spatially disaggregated road transport emissions. These can be used for (inter)national reporting such as NEC.
  • Analyse a scenario for road transportation. For example simulate the effect of the introduction of low emission zones or a more environmentally friendly fleet.
  • Include the data on road emissions in a Smart City or IoT platform/application. 

How does FASTRACE calculate the emission?  

FASTRACE uses the following data to calculate the emission: the number of vehicles per vehicle type, annual mileage per vehicle type, number of passing vehicles per road segment and the associated speed. This data is often provided by a software tool that can simulate the flow of traffic such as VISUM.  

Next, the emissions are estimated based on country or region specific emission factors extracted from COPERT, the software used worldwide to calculate emissions from road transport.  

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Discover the benefits  

  • Calculate the traffic emission for your region.
  • We use data from recognised software tools such as VISUM and COPERT.
  • The software is flexible and can be adapted to your specific needs.  

Would you like to know more about FASTRACE?

Discover how you can use this software tool to calculate traffic emission in your region. Contact Lisa Blyth today. 

Questions about FASTRACE  

Yes. The speed of the vehicle has a big impact on the emission, so FASTRACE takes this into account.  

FASTRACE uses data from – existing and reliable – software such as VISUM and COPERT.  

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