Method of determining the amount of pollutant emissions from a vehicle over a road network section

A method for determining an amount of pollutants emitted from for at least one vehicle travelling over at least one section of a road network, comprising steps of:

• a) constructing a training set from at least macroscopic data from a learning road network and from at least one of measured data from traffic on the road network and simulated data relative to vehicle traffic occurring on the learning road network;
• b) constructing a model of pollutant emissions using a machine learning method trained by using the constructed training set, the model of pollutant emissions associating with the at least one road network section according to the macroscopic data of the at least one section of the road network and to at least one of the measured data and the simulated data relative to traffic travelling on the road network;
• c) measuring the traffic data by using at least one sensor located on the at least one road network section and the traffic data is simulated by traffic simulation with the traffic data being at least one of an average speed of at least one vehicle travelling on the at least one road network section;
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• d) determining the amount of at least one pollutant emitted from at least one vehicle travelling on at least one of the section of the road network by applying the pollutant emission model to macroscopic data of the at least one section of the road network and to at least one of the measured traffic data and simulated traffic data relative to the traffic on the at least one road section.