Mobility Measure

An App will be developed allowing the public to report high-polluting vehicles and replace the current reporting system which is manual and inefficient. The new fully-automated system will call these reported vehicles for testing and will then either be ordered to be sent for maintenance or scrap depending on the state of the vehicle.

Objectives

The following are the objectives which the app curbing high polluting vehicles from the road aims to achieve:

1. Improve the quality of life of residents and visitors;

2. Reduce transport related emissions;

3. Encourage sustainable transport behaviour;

4. Involve the public in curbing high-emission vehicles;

5. Reduce high-polluting vehicles from the road and encourage a modal shift towards public transport;

How will this be achieved?

An App will be developed by the University of Malta which will replace the current system where highly-polluting vehicles are being reported to the regulating Authority by an sms. These messages are then filtered and once three reports are received, the vehicle owner is called for testing. The inefficiency of this system has led to the public loosing trust in it. By redesigning the system and reducing the manual input, the efficiency should be increased and the public is expected to be willing to engage again in effectively reducing pollution from the roads.