London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ)- what is it? what is it for?

This week London’s new Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) was put into force.
A good blog posting for understanding its aims and background is on the Conversation.

The Transport for London website - has a postcode and vehicle checker which enables users to find out who is effected and where.

Its supporting evidence pages has the consultation documents, proposals and medical facts and assessments on air pollution in London

Pollution in London- reports and projects

use these sites to find examples of useful research

London Assembly Committee reports on health and the environment

City of London reports on air quality. Includes a strategy and monitoring reports.

London Councils has reports on projects in individual London boroughs. they also have this useful report on demystifying air pollution in London

Monitoring research
Londonair is the website of the London Air Quality Network (LAQN), and shows air pollution in London and south east England. It is run the Environmental Research Group of King's College London. It has a live update of air quality in London now as well as data and cumulative reports.


Has vehicle charging had an impact on air quality?
London air quality has links to a number of academic journal articles.
Beevers 2004 found that ' . The evidence presented shows that the congestion charging schemes could assist in attaining both the UK government’s targets on air pollution as well as those relating to climate change and other international obligations.'


Colin P. Green, John. S. Heywood and Maria Navarro in a Lancaster university Working paper from 2018 found.
' significant reductions in a number of pollutants relative to controls' '. 'Yet, we find a robust countervailing increase in harmful NO2 likely reflecting the disproportionate share of diesel vehicles exempt from the congestion charge. This unintended consequence informs on-going concern about pollution from diesel based vehicles'


For more articles on air pollution and health see the WHO website which has special factsheets.and search Pubmed for abstracts and some free online scientific and medical articles