title: Exploring trade-offs between air pollutants through an Integrated Assessment Model.
abstract: When designing air pollution reduction policies, regional decision makers face a limited budget to choose the most efficient measures which will have impacts on several pollutants in different ways. RIAT+ is a regional integrated assessment tool that supports the policy maker in this selection of the optimal emission reduction technologies, to improve air quality at minimum costs. In this paper, this tool is formalized and applied to the specific case of a French region (Alsace), to illustrate how focusing on one single pollutant may exacerbate problems related to other pollutants, on top of conflicts related to budget allocation. In our case, results are shown for possible trade-offs between NO2 and O3 control policies. The paper suggests an approach to prioritize policy maker objectives when planning air pollution policies at regional scale.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Carnevale
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Giovanna
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Finzi
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pederzoli
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Turrini
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Brescia, Via Branze 38, 25123 Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Marialuisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Volta
authors.affiliation: Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo Di Vinci 32, 20133 Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guariso
authors.affiliation: TerrAria s.r.l., via Melchiorre Gioia, 132, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gianfreda
authors.affiliation: TerrAria s.r.l., via Melchiorre Gioia, 132, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppe
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Maffeis
authors.affiliation: European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra, VA, Italy. Electronic address: enrico.pisoni@jrc.ec.europa.eu.
authors.forename: Enrico
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pisoni
authors.affiliation: European Commission - Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra, VA, Italy.
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thunis
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, CNRS, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France; ASPA, 5, rue de Madrid, F-67300 Schiltigheim, France.
authors.forename: Lioba
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Markl-Hummel
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, CNRS, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Nadège
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Blond
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, University of Strasbourg, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clappier
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, CNRS, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France; Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, University of Strasbourg, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Vincent
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Dujardin
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Image Ville Environnement, UMR7362, CNRS, 3, rue de l'Argonne, F-67000 Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: Christiane
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Weber
authors.affiliation: ASPA, 5, rue de Madrid, F-67300 Schiltigheim, France.
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Perron
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods; D058735:Environmental Policy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Air quality modeling; Air quality plan; Decision support system; Multi-objective optimization