Abstract — Emission charging is a new phenomenon in transportation research. Whilst fuel taxation and road tolling are common ways of income raising in many countries, these initiatives are primarily aimed at road infrastructure financing. Worldwide, there has been growing interest in pricing structures designed to manage the growing levels of traffic congestion and, in recent times, an increasing focus on generating reductions in carbon emissions from vehicle ownership and usage. In this research model for vehicle emission charging using cooperative intelligent transport systems (ITS) has been made. With the use of proposed model, traffic management would be more accurate and efficient using the data provided by the Traffic Cooperative Center for Emission Charging. At the end, significant reduction of environmental pollution produced from road traffic would be achieved. Keywords — cooperative systems, emission charging, intelligent transport systems, vehicle emission I. INTRODUCTION HE emission charging is an important role in environmental protection. It reflects the efficiency of the environmental supervision and law enforcement. Tightly with the project examination and approval, environmental supervision, monitoring and legislation, the emission charging has a sophisticated information structure. In road transport emission charging hasn’t yet been implemented on a cooperative system basis. Through this research paper, model for vehicle emission charging using cooperative intelligent transport systems is presented. In the second chapter basic concept of cooperative ITS with communication technology is described. Also, main cooperative ITS solutions and possible implementation scenarios are presented, where communication between vehicles and infrastructure is essential. Third chapter defines basic principles and models of emission charging with comparison with congestion charging is made. Several emission charging methods are described regarding of placement and defined scenarios. In the fourth chapter the model for vehicle emission charging using cooperative ITS is presented with essential need of Traffic Cooperative Center for Emission Charging implementation. Fifth chapter defines the architecture of defined model of cooperative ITS for emission charging. Hrvoje Vojvodic, mag. ing. traff., PhD student, Hrvatska, (e- mail:vojvo0135@gmail.com) Prof. Sadko Mandzuka PhD., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Croatia, (e-mail: sadko.mandzuka@fpz.hr) 978-1-5090-4086-5/16/$31.00 ©2016 IEEE II. COOPERATIVE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS The concept of cooperative intelligent transport system in terms of communication includes gradual increment of commercial solutions and systems in automotive industry on the market such as [1]: • safe distance control systems • speed maintaining systems • autonomous management of vehicles within the traffic lanes • avoidance of overtaking in unsafe places • safe passage through the intersection, etc. These systems, with the benefits and their advantages that they provide to users of the transport system could further increase the superstructure of the existing system functionality in which individual vehicles could constantly communicate with each other or communicate with the transport infrastructure [2]. Fig. 1. The ITS communication system [3]. From Fig. 1, the establishment of an extended communication between the main traffic center, vehicles and drivers is visible. An expanded set of data includes the location and speed of the vehicle, the current number of Miroslav Vujić, PhD., University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, Hrvatska, (e-mail: miroslav.vujic@fpz.hr). The Use of Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems for Vehicle Emission Charging H. Vojvodic, S. Mandzuka, Member IEEE, M. Vujic T