Low emission zone Antwerp (LEZ)

Filip Lenders (City of Antwerp)Gert De Gelder (Information Flanders)

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LEZ Antwerp

Why a low emission zone in Antwerp?

lost healthy life-yearschildren / elderly / ill

Improving air quality with access restrictions

Legal frameworkFederal legislation – traffic sign

• Royal and ministerial decisions of 21/7/2014, published 15/10/2014• Notion of LEZ in traffic laws

Legal framework

Regional legislation (Flemish)

• Flemish level • Decree 27/11/2015 / Governmental decisions 26/2/2016 + 31/3/2017• Decides on categories of permitted vehicles• Decides on conditions under which local authorities can be less strict• Provides database with permitted cars (Belgian fleet)

• Local level• Introduces LEZ on local and regional traffic roads (not on motorways)• Can give paid admission to vehicles not permitted by Flemish level• Enforces LEZ and collects administrative fine

LEZ in Antwerp

Enforcement with ANPR

Access criteria

Based on Flemish legislation, with local social and economic corrections

PetrolNatural gas, LPG

From 1/02/2017 onwards

From 1/01/2020 onwards

From 1/01/2025 onwards

Euro 6 admitted admitted admitted

Euro 5 admitted admitted admitted

Euro 4 admitted admitted admitted

Euro 3 admitted admitted admitted

Euro 2 admitted admitted only with day-pass

Euro 1 admitted only with day-pass only with day-pass

Pre-Euro only with day-pass only with day-pass only with day-pass

Category M, N and T

Flemish Governmental decision 31/03/2017: Euro 4 / IV from 1/1/2028 onwards

Diesel From 1/02/2017 onwards

From 1/01/2020 onwards

From 1/01/2025 onwards

Euro 6 admitted admitted admitted

Euro 5 admitted admitted admitted with fee

Euro 4 admitted admitted with fee only with day-pass

Euro 3 with part. filter admitted only with day-pass only with day-pass

Euro 3 without part. filter admitted with fee only with day-pass only with day-pass

Euro 2 only with day-pass only with day-pass only with day-pass

Euro 1 only with day-pass only with day-pass only with day-pass

Pre-Euro only with day-pass only with day-pass only with day-pass

Category M, N and T

Flemish Governmental decision 31/03/2017: Euro 6d 1/9/2027 onwards

1. Automatically admitted (Belgian + Dutch fleet)

2. Admission if registered (max. 24hrs after entrance)

3. Temporary admission after payment (before entering LEZ)

4. LEZ-daypass (max. on day of entering LEZ)

5. Administrative fine

6. Using an alternative mobility mode

6 options

free access (with orwithout registration)access if retrofitted orwith temporary admissionmax. 8 times/year

appr. 80%

appr. 10%

appr. 10%

Impact on car fleet (car fleet early 2016)

lowers

increases

Our EPSA application

Functional needs for city with LEZ

Dealing with and fluent processing of demands of citizens andcompanies for permits to enter LEZ

Direct or indirect access to federal databases to check • information on permit demands• technical information on vehicle• name and address of offenders

Automatic reading and filtering of permitted number plates + manual validation of list of potential offenders

Processing and sending administrative fines + follow up payments

Collection of data to monitor effects

The challengeMeet the functional requirements

Fully automated processes

24/7 availability

‘Only once’ principle

Handle high datavolumes

Multilevel cooperation

Meet personal information legislation

Reusability (reuse existing systems, enable future reuse)

Enable customer-friendly front

… within 7 months

Involved partners

Local level• City of Antwerp

Regional level• Department of Environment and Spatial Development• Flanders Information Agency

Federal level• Federal Ministry of Economy – Crossroad Bank Enterprises• Federal Ministry of Interior – National Registry of Natural

Persons• Ministry of Mobility – Database of Registered Vehicles

DeliverablesIntegration federal vehicles database ~ Flemish MAGDA platform

(initial load, daily mutations, storage infrastructure)

Integration city ~ MAGDA ~ vehicles database (webservice check access with numberplate, check access with vehicle specs. )

Integration city ~ MAGDA ~ Environment Department(daily > 100,000 access control, anonymisation numberplates, webservicecheck access with numberplate and date, upload registered vehicles toLEZ-database)

Integration MAGDA ~ Environment Department(dump and hashing)

General overview datastreams

Developped services for check & registration

Check access with numberplateCheck access with vehicle specificationsCheck access with numberplate and dateUpload registered vehicle into LEZ-database

National cardatabase Flemish

LEZ-database

AntwerpCheck- &

registration tool

Antwerp localadmissions

whitelist

Numberplatesenteredvehicles

ANPR-images

Visual validationANPR-images

Additionpersonal

data (name, address)

National persons database

Mailing penalty

CONTROL FINING

AntwerpLEZ-backoffice

CUSTOMER (person /

enterprise)

FWI

Nat. enterprisesdatabase

National cardatabase

Nat. persons database

Nat. enterpr. database

National cardatabase

Fedict

System otherthan Antwerp

System Antwerp

ACCESS MANAGEMENT

batch online

Fedict

Integrator

Flemish webservicesintegrator (FWI)

FWI

Numberplatespotentialviolators

Filtering doubles, local

admissions

Nat. socialsecurity datab.

Intermutualdatabase

Adapted vehiclesdatabase

User front: www.slimnaarantwerpen.be/en/lezwww.sna.be/en/lez

User front: check- and registration tool

Innovative aspects

First low emission zone in Belgium

Highest degree of integration and automation in Europe

Exchange information of different databases between different partners, compliant to privacy regulations

‘Once only’ principle

MAGDA platform as ‘hub’ between LEZ-cities and databases

Developed MAGDA components reusable in other projects

Data for environmental management and evaluation

Stakeholder involvementCitizens, companies and visitors

• Information sessions, debates• Calls to action

Political and administrative level• Multilevel legislative efforts: federal, regional, local• Multilevel and cross-domain administrative collaboration

Local police department• Shared investment in network of ANPR-camera’s

Privacy institutions: federal and regional• Prior consultation• Involvement of integrators

Social inclusion

LEZ aiming at better health for citizens

Socially weaker groups (disables, financially weak …) favoured in access criteria

Developed services enable citizens to apply for permits and exemptionsaccording to individual needs

Multi-channel front-office for applicants• PC, tablet and smartphone• Parking meters and self-service registration desks• City windows

Sustainability

Possibility to evolve from one to more queried national vehicle databases

Framework constructed in order to deal with future changes in access criteria

Possibility to evolve to other use of system (congestion charging, traffic management)

Reuse of developed MAGDA components in other projects, e.g. in Citizens Portal

Transferability

Easy transfer to other Flemish cities implementing LEZ (Ghent, Mechelen)

Application code transferable to other cities/regions for LEZ purposes• Remark: limitations in European data harmonisation/standardisation,

access to national databases in other countries, information exchange between countries

Reusable components

Some figures

LEZ-website• Nearly 1 mio users (2/3 new, 1/3 return)• Nearly 5.6 mio pageviews

ANPR• 58 mio camerascans (of which 46 mio confidence > 80%)• 725,000 unique cars/month checked (average)

Outcome• 72,000 applications handled• LEZ conformity of carfleet: from 94.7% in February to 98.8% in

October (Belgian car fleet: < 90%)

Plans for (nearby) futureIn development: new services – reuse of services

• Access to NL / F databases for personal information of offenders• Reuse of services in Citizen’s Portal• Reuse of services by Flemish fleet manager• Reuse of services for traffic monitoring with ANPR

Future developments• Access to Viapass database (> 3,5 ton)• Access to foreign databases for vehicle information• Access to other foreign databases for personal information

More LEZ• Antwerp: study to enlarge LEZ (within and beyond city borders)• Brussels Region: starting LEZ in 2018• Ghent and Mechelen: starting LEZ in 2020

Thank you!

Visit• Low Emission Zone Antwerp• Flanders Information Agency• Department of Environment

and Spatial Development