FASST - FAst Scenario Screening Tool

Scale
National
Sub-national
Resource Type
Analysis Tools
Expertise Level
Practitioner
Specialist
Language
English
Guidance

FASST web tool: In this site is provided access to a web version of the FASST tool specifically designed to compare a scenario (policy case) with a counterfactual case (baseline). The target policy domains are national to regional air quality policies, or air pollutant scenarios linked to other policy domains (e.g. climate policy). The tool is particularly user-friendly, web-based, flexible, does not require any coding or modelling experience and can be applied from the global to the regional domain. The user can make use of a number of built-in scenario groups or apply custom emission scenarios. To access the web-tool click here. Note: an account must be created to access.

Inputs Needed
Annual pollutant emission aggregated at national or regional level
Outputs Provided
Atmospheric pollutant concentrations and a broad range of pollutant-related metrics of impacts on:
a) health (mortality, morbidity),
b) agricultural crop yields, and
c) radiative forcing of short-lived climate pollutants.
Developer or Source
European Commission

FAst Scenario Screening Tool (FASST) is a JRC developed air quality integrated assessment model to support the design of air pollution abatement policies by means of scenario analysis (van Dingenen et al., 2018). FASST is a scenario screening tool based on source-receptor relationships using as an input annual pollutant emission aggregated at national or regional level to compute atmospheric pollutant concentrations and a broad range of pollutant-related metrics of impacts on:

a) health (mortality, morbidity),
b) agricultural crop yields, and
c) radiative forcing of short-lived climate pollutants.

The tool has recently developed a module to estimate costs associated with the health outcomes (benefits). FASST has been extensively used for many policy-oriented scientific applications.

You find a list of publications here.