Google offers tool for cities to measure emissions

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A tool Google offered in the US to help cities measure pollution and emissions levels is now available in Europe.
It compiles transport and building data from Google Maps with publicly available information about emissions
Google will initially offer the tool to Birmingham, Manchester, Wolverhampton and Coventry, Dublin and Copenhagen.
The Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) offers data in four categories:
building emissions
transport emissions
general emissions
The dashboard is designed to help cities see what changes they could make to lower emissions, such as creating more bike lanes or installing solar panels on buildings.
Manchester council thinks the tool will bring greater accuracy to the work it is already doing on emissions
In a separate project, Air View, Google Street View cars have been measuring air pollution as they drive through cities, including London and Copenhagen.
And this data will also be shared via the EIE tool.
An official of the city of Copenhagen said: “With this new data, the city of Copenhagen can see for the first time pollutant levels of air quality at the ultrafine particle level on the roads in the city centre, as well as leading into the city centre, that are contributing the most to the city’s air pollution problems.”

“This data being made available across our three cities by Google will make a substantial difference to our efforts and will help us target specific areas to achieve greater results

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