STEEP (by Team Inselberg*)

STEEP: A SpatioTemporal Emission Estimator for Passenger vehicles

*Team Inselberg: Verónica Arambula Coyote, Alena Izotova, Elina Kreuzberg, HuanHuan Li, Kamiel Verhelst; all students of the Master Geo-Information Science at Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

STEEP is a model that estimates the CO2 emissions of passenger cars on a specific route, at a specific time of departure. The model combines a time-dependent routing algorithm (TomTom's Routing API) with a vehicle emission model (COPERT+).

This repository contains the main model code, wrapped in a web-based user interface based on Python.

Installation

To run the application, a set of Python and geo packages need to be installed. We recommend using Conda as a package manager. With Conda, create a virtual environment using the environment.yml provided.

Create the Conda environment using: conda env create -f environment.yml.

In case packages are not available in the specified channels, they can be searched for on https://anaconda.org/ and manually installed.

Usage

Set your TomTom API Key

If you do not have an active TomTom API key, you can get it here. Fill in the API key in src/routing.py on line 27.

Running STEEP

To run STEEP, open a terminal and head to this repository, or open the repository in your favourite text editor. Then run the app (terminal: python app.py).