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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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