Research and analysis

Measuring emissions from heavy goods vehicles

Project designing and piloting a way to measure greenhouse gas and air quality pollutant emissions from heavy goods vehicles.

• From: Department for Transport
• Published: 17 September 2015

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Provision of HGV emissions testing

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Details

This project designed and piloted a testing protocol for greenhouse gas and air quality pollutant emissions from heavy goods vehicles (HGV). The protocol can be used with gas and dual-fuelled HGVs.

This emissions testing project was commissioned to address the current lack of real-world data on both:

• methane slip
• air quality pollutant emissions

from gas and dual-fuelled (diesel/gas) vehicles. The project leads on from the low carbon truck trial which revealed an issue with unburned methane emissions (methane slip) from some trial vehicles.

Published 17 September 2015