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Call for Abstracts for the OSAR 2025 Conference on April 17 & 18, 2025
The 14th Annual International Onboard Sensing and Reporting (OSAR) Conference is scheduled for April 17 & 18, 2025, in Riverside, California. This workshop’s theme, The Role of Onboard Sensing and Emissions Reduction in Moving Towards a Sustainable Transportation Future, covers a wide range of emissions and activity measurement systems but incorporates a greater emphasis on understanding the implications of the measurement results. In a world where advanced transportation solutions will play a role in achieving sustainability as well as maintaining a robust economy, it is imperative that we ensure the viability of new transportation strategies. Our theme revolves around the need to mitigate carbon and other air pollutant emissions and the key role that onboard sensing technology and other emissions monitoring methods can play in driving positive change. We are committed to championing sustainable transportation solutions, with a focus on onboard sensing as a powerful tool for emissions and energy use quantification and informing data-driven policies. Onboard sensing technology, as well as traditional portable measurement and modeling tools, can help create a more sustainable and prosperous world for all today and for generations to come.

Ideas for presentation topics:

1. Onboard Sensing Revolution: Onboard sensing technology has the potential for equipping vehicles with advanced sensors, allowing us to monitor and control emissions and energy use in real-time. This technology empowers us to pinpoint pollution sources, enforce regulations, and proactively reduce emissions. Understanding the accuracy, usage, and applications of onboard sensing systems, as well as interpreting and modeling information from these systems, is of interest for continued study.
2. Portable Emissions Measurement Systems (PEMS): Their application, accuracy, and use in characterizing in-use emissions in necessary to validate onboard sensing and to quantify real benefits from advanced technologies. This includes both 1065 compliant PEMS and smaller mini- or micro-PEMS.
3. Collaboration for Impactful Policy: Meaningful change requires collaboration among all stakeholders: government agencies, industry leaders, environmental advocates, and the affected communities themselves. Presentations on policy visions and directions or mitigation strategies are encouraged.
4. Characterizing the Supply Chain: Our vision extends beyond emissions reductions. We also advocate for sustainable and environmentally friendly practices throughout the supply chain. Examples of innovative projects in this area, where the benefits could be quantified with PEMS, modeling, and/or onboard sensing would be of interest.

For the past fourteen years, the conference has had over 150 attendees from industry, academia, and government agencies. We are expecting approximately the same for the 2025 Conference. Your participation on the selected topics is requested. Please let us know by December 16, 2024, if you or another colleague are willing to present and provide an abstract and title for the presentation.
Your submission and any questions can be emailed to certpems@cert.ucr.edu

Day 1 – Thursday, April 17, 2025

Day 2 – Friday, April 18, 2025

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