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No. 59: User Guide to OML-Highway

Olesen, H.R., Ketzel, M., Jensen, S.S., Løfstrøm, P., Im, U. & Becker, T. 2015. User Guide to OML-Highway. A tool for air pollution assessments along highways. Aarhus University, DCE - Danish Centre for Environment and Energy, 66 pp. Technical Report from DCE – Danish Centre for Environment and Energy No. 59. http://dce2.au.dk/pub/TR59.pdf

Summary

OML-Highway is a user-friendly GIS-based model for assessment of air quality along motorways and other main roads in open terrain. A common application of OML-Highway is for assessment of air pollution in environmental impact assessments of new major roads or major alteration of existing roads. OML-Highway has been integrated into SELMAGIS, a GIS environment developed by Lohmeyer GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.

SELMAGIS is a framework which is used for running various dispersion models, including OML-Highway. It requires the GIS software ArcMap marketed by the company ESRI.

The present user guide provides a brief introduction to OML-Highway and to the central concepts in the model. It further describes the procedure and requirements for installation.

A central part of this user guide is the chapter Working through the menus, which gives a detailed description of the various menus and their application.

A detailed description of the various files handled in a OML-Highway project is provided in Appendix to the report.