Podgorica

As a member of EU Mission of 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030, i.e. city aiming for climate neutrality by 2030, Podgorica is seeking solutions to support their journey in increasing their knowledge about local CO₂ emissions.

Podgorica is the capital of Montenegro, its administrative, cultural, economic centre, inhabited by one third of the state’s population i.e. almost 200,000 inhabitants. Being rapidly developing city, Podgorica is under, inter alia, significant pressure coming from the large share of vehicles used to the significant extent by citizens, even though significant efforts are being put into improvement of public transport.

This is confirmed by results of air quality monitoring, conducted annually which covers three city locations, out of which one is near frequent city road. In order to obtain a comprehensive overview of the CO₂ emissions coming from transport, it is necessary to have larger area of city covered, with the data obtain in real time, from various relevant locations. In this way, it would be possible to make evidence based profound conclusions and to define and implement concrete activities toward CO₂ reduction.

Additional issue is the fact that there are no data on the traffic flow i.e. number of cars on the city’s streets which is missing link in terms of analysing actual situation, elaborating possible solutions and defining and implementing concrete activities.