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Papers presented at vehicle emission workshop available on Internet

Papers presented at the "Better Air Quality: Motor Vehicle Control and Technology Workshop" have been uploaded onto the Internet, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Department (EPD) said today (October 22).

Jointly organised by the EPD and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University between September 18 and 20, the workshop was well attended by over 600 participants from the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, Singapore and the Mainland.

During the workshop, local, regional and overseas experts shared their experience and discussed new technologies of reducing motor vehicle emissions.

Some 40 speakers delivered speeches with topics covering international experience of emissions control and regulations; in-use vehicle testing technology; experience of emissions control in the Mainland; new property diesel fuels; transport policy and planning; and low emission vehicles.

The papers and presentation materials of the speakers are available at the EPD homepage at http://www.info.gov.hk/epd/.

End/Sunday, October 22, 2000

 

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