On December 18, 2023, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (EU) reached an agreement on new emission standards for light- and heavy-duty vehicles. Pending formal adoption by both Parliament and Council, the new regulation will supersede the current Euro 6 regulation for passenger cars and vans, (EC) 715/2007, and the Euro VI regulation for trucks and buses, (EC) ...

China took a big step toward further reducing in-use vehicle emissions when it released a final notice of the establishment and implementation of a vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance (I/M) program in June 2020. The most important feature of this new program is that it establishes a closed-loop management mechanism whereby non-compliant vehicles must be repaired at an accredited main...

This briefing is a comprehensive technical overview of the Euro 6/VI vehicle emissions standards, which tighten limits on air pollutant emissions set in previous European standards and require the best technology currently available for vehicle emissions control.Countries outside of Europe, the United States and Japan have largely patterned their emissions policies on European regulations and the ...

Across the developing world, countries are experiencing rapid growth in urbanization and motorization. While high motorization rates potentially mean that more people will be able to claim the benefits of improved accessibility to goods and services because of enhanced mobility, there are questions about the sustainability of this future. From a development impact standpoint, the nature of a count...

This paper examines whether emerging transportation technologies—such as electric vehicles, shared mobility, and autonomous vehicles—deliver benefits equitably across different population groups. While these innovations offer efficiency, sustainability, and cost advantages, their distributional impacts remain uncertain, and existing equity evaluation methods lack clear comparability.Through a comp...

Cities in Europe increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. At the same time, urban mobility is vital for European cities and is a major contributor to economic growth, jobs and competitiveness. The question of how to enhance mobility while at the same time reducing congestion, accidents and pollution is a common challenge to all major cities.For decades the European Commission ha...

It is presented and contrasted through a framing analysis how selected environmentalNGOs and the German Automotive Industry Association (VDA) engaged in the national German debate on urban air quality governance during the height of the emission scandal between 2015 and mid-2019. For this, frames of communication applied to communicate organizational priorities and conceptualizations of air qualit...

This appendix provides an overview of the implementation of vehicle emissions standards in other jurisdictions, including the approaches other countries have taken to each of the key design issues for standards. Understanding how standards have been implemented elsewhere provides a useful input into standard design for Australia.The analysis covers countries that represent the majority of the glob...

Safer and Cleaner Used Vehicles for Africa is a project led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and funded by the UN Road Safety Fund (UNRSF) aiming to improve the quality of used vehicles reaching the continent. CITA, the International Motor Vehicle Inspection Committee, participates in the activity by providing its experience and knowledge on whole-life vehicle compliance in gener...