Institute for Transport Studies (ITS)

Dr James Tate

Lecturer

Phone: +44 (0)113 34 36608
Room: 209
Email: J.E.Tate@its.leeds.ac.uk_

Twitter: @drjamestate

Education

• BEng.(Hons) Civil Engineering (2:1), University of Nottingham, 1995
• MRes Civil Engineering, University of Nottingham, 1996
• PhD, University of Leeds, 2005. "A Study of Vehicular Emissions and Ambient Air Quality at the Local-scale".

Employment History

• 1996 to 1997 - Research Assistant, University of Nottingham, Transport Research Group.
• 1997 to 2006 - Research Fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds.
• 2007 to present - Lecturer, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds.

and

• 2008 to present - Visiting Research Fellow, Institute for Internal Combustion Engines and Thermodynamics, Technical University of Graz, Austria.

Research Interests

• Transport and the Environment.
• Better understanding the on-road vehicle fleet and its emission characteristics (Tate, 2010).
• The application of a remote sensing Vehicle Emission Measurement System.
• Coupling traffic microsimulations with instantaneous emission models (Tate, 2012; Zallinger, Tate et al, 2009).
• Low Emission Zones, Strategies and Vehicles.

Professional Engagements

• Editorial Panel, ICE Journal of Civil Engineering
• Member of the Charted Institution of Highways & Transportation (CIHT).
• Scientific committee member of the International Transport and Air Pollution Conference, Graz, Austria.

Media appearances

• Featured on the BBC One - Inside Out Programme - East Midlands. “The East Midland cities living under a cloud of air pollution.” 28th January 2013, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Lt0pnSdKc
• Contributed to the BBC Radio 4 Programme “Diesel Pollution”. 7^th August 2012, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01lhgyn      (skip to 0:15:40)

Teaching:

Programme Leader:

• MSc (Eng) and Postgraduate Diploma in Transport Planning & Engineering
• MSc and Postgraduate Diploma in Transport Planning & the Environment

Module Leader:

• Transport and Urban Pollution (MSc) [TRAN5691M]
• Transport Engineering (BEng and MEng) [CIVE3350]

Lecturer:

• Transport Data Collection and Analysis (MSc) [TRAN5031M]
• Principles of Transport Engineering (MSc) [TRAN5072M]

Recent Publications

• Carslaw, D., Williams, M., Tate, J., Beevers, S. 2013. The importance of high vehicle power for passenger car emissions. Atmospheric Environment, 68, April 2013, pp 8-16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2012.11.033

• Tate, J. 2012. Assessing Low Emission Zone and Demand Management policies using detailed traffic and vehicle emission measurements and coupled models. 19th International Transport and Air Pollution Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 26-27 November, 2012

• Edwards, H., Linton, C., Riley, R., Smith, C., Tate, J. 2012. Emission Trends in the UK Passenger Car Fleet: A Policy Perspective. 19th International Transport and Air Pollution Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 26-27 November, 2012

• Smith, C., Tate, J. 2012. The effect of the UK Vehicle Scrappage Scheme on passenger car CO₂ emissions. 19th International Transport and Air Pollution Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 26-27 November, 2012

• Wyatt, D., Kies, A., Tate, J. 2012. The Influence of Road Grade on Carbon Dioxide Emission for a Hybrid Bus under Real-World Urban and Extra Urban Driving Conditions. 19th International Transport and Air Pollution Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, 26-27 November, 2012

• Carslaw, D., Beevers, S., Tate, J., Westmoreland, E., Williams, M. 2011. Recent evidence concerning higher NO_X emissions from passenger cars and light duty vehicles. Atmospheric Environment, 45, December 2011, pg 7053-7063, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.09.063

• Carslaw, D., Beevers, S. Westmoreland, E. Williams, M. Tate, J. Murrells, T. Stedman, J. Li, Y., Grice, S., Kent, A., Tsagatakis, I. (2011). Trends in NO_X and NO₂ emissions and ambient measurements in the UK. Consultation draft: Version 3rd March 2011. http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/reports/cat05/1103041401_110303_Draft_NOx_NO2_trends_report.pdf.

• Tate, J.E. 2010. The on-road emission characteristics of UK passenger cars: The application of a remote sensing vehicle emission measurement system. Transport and Air Pollution      Conference, Zurich, 2010.