As cities are showing interest in implementation of remote sensing monitoring of on-road vehicles, there is a lot of curiosity about the nature and scope of this programme. There are several questions related it’s design, technology for monitoring, measurement methods and data analytics, comparison with other measurement techniques like the current idling testing under pollution under control certification programme or lab based certification testing, and several aspects of its operations and compliance procedures.

While planning and designing an RSD program several elements will have to be addressed for implementation. Considerable learning has come from the global programmes as well as the local pilots conducted for Delhi including the 2019 pilot study of International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT). Extensive documentation of the global programmes have been carried out by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) under the TRUE initiative.