University of Stuttgart (USTUTT) has been engaged in research work in the fields of air pollution and air pollution control, environmental economy, and energy and environment for many years. Research activities are focused on the evaluation of technical systems with regard to major policy issues, including costs, risks, environmental pollution and its impacts. A wide range of studies has been carried out in this field, addressing the calculation of emission inventories, identification of emission reduction strategies, comparative risk assessment, life-cycle analysis of energy and transport systems, health and environmental impacts as well as the assessment of social costs from energy and transport systems. Results of USTUTT’s research have been actively disseminated through close links to public institutions, politicians, industry and private households. USTUTT has a long experience of participating in and co-ordinating international research projects both in the EU and with Eastern European and developing countries.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rainer Friedrich, who will lead the research work, is deputy director of USTUTT and heads the department of Technology Assessment and Environment. His major research areas cover generation of emission inventories, the identification of emission reduction strategies, technology assessment, environmental economics, quantification and assessment of environmental damage and risks to human health and estimation of external costs of energy and transport systems. He was a member of the Scientific Steering Committee of EUROTRAC-II, a large European research project studying the chemical transformation and transport of pollution over Europe, and also co-ordinator of the EUROTRAC subproject GENEMIS (Generation and Evaluation of Emission Data,. He has extensive experience in co-ordinating international research projects, e.g. MERLIN, NewExt and ESPREME.
Dr.-Ing. Peter Bickel, who leads the working group "Technology Assessment", was significantly involved in design, implementation and application of the ExternE transport methodology, and he was in charge of the technical coordination of the projects ExternE Transport and ExternE Core/Transport.
USTUTT will be leading the sub project 4 on the development of the integrated assessment system, as well as leading WP4.2 (Toolbox construction). Further to that, USTUTT will be involved in the following work packages: WP1.1 (Integrated assessment framework), WP1.2 (Source-exposure), WP1.4 (Risk characterisation), WP3.3 (Agricultural land use), WP3.4 (Water), WP3.6 (Wastes), WP4.1 (Toolbox design), WP4.3 (Application and testing), WP5.1 (Integration) and WP5.2 (Internal training).
