The purpose of the seminar was to present work from the GAZ project and to get input from international and national LEZ-experts.

Project Manager Terje Tretvik (SINTEF) opened the seminar with a status review of the project. Senior Adviser Trond Foss (SINTEF) presented the objectives of the project and the functionality and the roles that are necessary to implement a GAZ-system. He also presented the main conclusions from the project's investigation of user acceptance for the introduction of a GAZ-application. Research Scientist Tomas Levin (SINTEF) presented thoughts and ideas about how a GAZ-application can be developed in this project.

Kelly Pitera is a PhD student from the University of Washington who has a stay at SINTEF. She presented research from Seattle about how to reduce emissions from distribution of goods in urban areas.

Tilman Bracher from the Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik in Berlin gave a presentation on European policy, measures to reduce air emissions and noise and information about introduction of LEZ in Germany.

The presentation by Ivar Christiansen from the Norwegian Public Roads Administration's (NPRA) contained a recent study of the NO2 challenge, technologies for taxation in Norwegian LEZ and showed a proposal for the introduction of LEZ in Norway.

Other participants at the seminar were Øystein Strandli (the Norwegian Research Council), Erik Olsen and Anders Godal Holt (NPRA), Gunnar Eiterjord (Rogaland County) and Astrid Bjørgen Sund, Marianne Elvsaas Nordtømme, Kristin Ystmark Bjerkan, An-Magritt Kummeneje, Isabelle Roche-Cerasi and Roar Norvik (SINTEF).

There are links to all presentations at this page.