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Your responsibilities as a Back-End developer will be to:

• Develop new and maintain existing API and the backend of Web applications using .Net Core
• Develop and communicate with databases
• Work with mechanical engineers, designers, product managers and supervisors to understand the problem space and needs and create elegant solutions
• Participate in code review, quality process and testing
• Find and explore new technology solutions

Methodological
-> Introduction of Solid Particle Number (SPN23) emission factors for all vehicle categories
--> Updated PM exhaust emission factors. Affected vehicle categories:
----> PCs (Euro 5, Euro 6 a/b/c, Euro 6 d-temp, and Euro 6d)
------> Petrol
------> Petrol Hybrid
------> Petrol PHEV ~ Petrol
------> Diesel
------> Diesel PHEV ~ Diesel
------> LPG Bifuel

The report “Fuel quality monitoring in the EU in 2019” was prepared for the European Environment Agency (EEA) by EMISIA, as member of the European Topic Centre on Climate change mitigation and energy (ETC/CME). This annual report of the EEA provides a summary of the information on the quality of fuels in the European Union (EU) in 2019, as reported in 2020 by EU Member

Software

•   -  Upgrade of the Energy breakdown form. In this version, the energy consumption (and GHG emissions) of all primary fuels (incl. FAME, ETBE) is calculated, and the results are further broken down based on the fuel’s origin (fossil or bio).
•   -  The syntax of the command line version of Copert (CLI) has slightly changed.
•   -  Minor software improvements.

Bugs

SIBYL baseline is a Copert compatible dataset that provides historical and projected vehicle fleet data, emissions, and energy consumption for the whole period 1990 – 2050.

Main features of the updated dataset:

• - COVID effect on sales, activity, and emissions
• - Integrates new vehicle categories that expected to play important role in future transportation (e.g. HDT BEV)
• - Calculation considering the expected efficiency improvement

A major update has been performed in Copert data, taking into account all recent statistical information available.

Main updates compared to previous versions:

• -  Full-time series 1990-2019
• -  New categories and corresponding EFs added: Electric, hybrids, LPG, CNG/LNG for all vehicle categories (PCs, LCVs, HDTs, Buses, L-cat)
• -  Four new countries available (Serbia, Montenegro, Liechtenstein, Albania)

Main features of the updated dataset:

EMISIA participated with transport reviewers in the 2021 review of Air Pollutant Emissions Inventories submitted by Parties under the NEC Directive and UNECE LRTAP Convention, June 2021.

The ELVITEN paper entitled “Impact on mobility and environment in six European cities due to the introduction of Electrified L-category Vehicles (EL-Vs) – The ELVITEN project” has been accepted for oral presentation as full paper in the TAP 2021 Conference. More information for the conference can be found here.

The ELVITEN project has been finalized since December 2020. In the framework of the project, EMISIA studied the impact of the introduction of Electrified L-category Vehicles (EL-Vs) on mobility and on the environment. The potential market uptake of EL-Vs has also been assessed with a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). More information and final results of the project can be found here.