The Real Urban Emissions (TRUE) Initiative is a partnership of the FIA Foundation and the International Council on Clean Transportation with a shared interest in cleaning up vehicles, improving urban air quality, and mitigating climate change.
It is supported by an advisory group with members such as Transport and Environment (T&E), C40 Cities, Clean Air Fund, and several universities globally.
TRUE's broad objectives are to:
Collect and publish real-world emissions data with the objective of raising awareness about the magnitude and scope of excess vehicle emissions.
Support city efforts to inform consumers with transparent emissions data, and to support effective policy.
'The TRUE initiative is open, transparent and innovative.
Open - we are committed to connecting with all relevant stakeholders, to releasing all of our results, and to sharing our objectives Transparent - secrecy has been at the heart of the problems with vehicle emission testing which we have seen to date. We are entirely open about our partners, our funding sources and our methodology Innovative - we support all forms of testing, but particularly the more innovative remote sensing as it offers huge benefits in terms of the number of observations and the real world setting in which measurements are taken.'
Sheila Watson, Deputy Director, FIA Foundation
“Thanks to the FIA Foundation to be part of TRUE emissions project. Citizens deserve true data on their vehicles’ emissions."
Anne Hidalgo, Mayor of Paris
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