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Osvaldo Santos, Fernando Ribeiro, José Metrôlho and Rogério Dionísio
Reducing CO2 emissions is currently a key policy in most developed countries. In this article, we evaluate whether smart traffic lights can have a relevant role in reducing CO2 emissions in small cities, considering their specific traffic profiles. The r...
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Conrad Piasecki
Pág. 3089 - 3098
Road traffic is in addition to the energy sector and the industry one main source of air pollution and carbon dioxide emissions. Although most countries and manufacturers agreed to environmental regulations to reduce the pollutant emissions, particularly...
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Maximilian Huber and Brigitte Helmreich
Metals such as antimony, cadmium, chromium, copper, lead, nickel, and zinc can be highly relevant pollutants in stormwater runoff from traffic areas because of their occurrence, toxicity, and non-degradability. Long-term measurements of their concentrati...
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João N. Ribeiro da Silva, Tiago A. Santos and Angelo P. Teixeira
This paper develops a methodology to estimate ship emissions using Automatic Identification System data (AIS). The methodology includes methods for AIS message decoding and ship emission estimation based on the ship?s technical and operational characteri...
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Veit Ulrich, Josephine Brückner, Michael Schultz, Sanam Noreen Vardag, Christina Ludwig, Johannes Fürle, Mohammed Zia, Sven Lautenbach and Alexander Zipf
As one of the major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters that has not seen significant emission reductions in the previous decades, the transportation sector requires special attention from policymakers. Policy decisions, thereby need to be supported by traffic...
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William A. Gough and Vidya Anderson
Air pollutants, NO, NO2, and O3, were examined from April to June 2020 and compared to a 10-year (2010?2019) climatology of these pollutants for two monitoring sites in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, coinciding with local lockdown measures during the first wa...
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Jarlath Molloy, Roger Teoh, Seán Harty, George Koudis, Ulrich Schumann, Ian Poll and Marc E. J. Stettler
The aviation industry has committed to decarbonize its CO2 emissions. However, there has been much less industry focus on its non-CO2 emissions, despite recent studies showing that these account for up to two-thirds of aviation?s climate impact. Parts of...
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Juan Chen, Qinxuan Feng and Qi Guo
In order to solve the problem of traffic congestion and emission optimization of urban multi-class expressways, a robust dynamic nondominated sorting multi-objective genetic algorithm DFCM-RDNSGA-III based on density fuzzy c-means clustering method is pr...
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Jiayi Tang, Aonghus McNabola, Bruce Misstear, Francesco Pilla and Md Saniul Alam
Traffic is a major source of urban air pollution that affects health, especially among children. As lower speed limits are commonly applied near schools in many cities, and different governments have different policies on vehicle fleet composition, this ...
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Katerina Maneva Mitrovikj,Frani?ek Skácel
Pág. 213 - 223
Road transportation activities are major contributors of nitrogen oxides emissions to the air. The impact on the growth of NOx emission levels is found to be strongly correlated with the traffic intensities on highways. Various types of emission models p...
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Clare Paton-Walsh, Élise-Andrée Guérette, Kathryn Emmerson, Martin Cope, Dagmar Kubistin, Ruhi Humphries, Stephen Wilson, Rebecca Buchholz, Nicholas B. Jones, David W. T. Griffith, Doreena Dominick, Ian Galbally, Melita Keywood, Sarah Lawson, James Harnwell, Jason Ward, Alan Griffiths and Scott Chambers
We present findings from the Measurements of Urban, Marine and Biogenic Air (MUMBA) campaign, which took place in the coastal city of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia. We focus on a few key air quality indicators, along with a comparison to regio...
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Claudio Meneguzzer, Massimiliano Gastaldi, Riccardo Rossi, Gregorio Gecchele, Maria Vittoria Prati
Pág. 1597 - 1609
The traditional approach to the comparison of alternative types of road intersection control has focused mainly on efficiency and safety. In recent years, the increasing importance of air pollution produced by vehicular traffic has suggested that environ...
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Nikolaos Tsanakas, Joakim Ekström, Johan Olstam
Pág. 440 - 449
The rapid growth of traffic congestion has led to an increased level of emissions and energy consumption in urban areas. Well designed infrastructure and traffic controllers along with more efficient vehicles and policy measures are required to mitigate ...
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T. I. Rusakova
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Jian Wang, Libing Chi, Xiaowei Hu and Hongfei Zhou
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Sergio Zubelzu Mínguez, Alfonso López Díaz, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez García, Fernando Blanco Silva
Pág. Page 187 - 207
This paper proposes a methodology for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic. The method uses information about the cities and their growth estimates in order to model traffic by using a gravity model. These kind of mathematical models all...
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E. GRAMSCH,P. OYOLA,D. VONBAER,I. ORMEÑO
The high particle concentrations that are observed in Santiago de Chile during winter have prompted the government to pursue several approaches to reduce the contamination. One of these strategies was to change the traffic direction, and privileges i...
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Sergio Zubelzu Mínguez, Alfonso López Díaz, Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez García, Fernando Blanco Silva
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This paper proposes a methodology for estimating greenhouse gas emissions from road traffic. The method uses information about the cities and their growth estimates in order to model traffic by using a grav ity model. These kind of mathematical models al...
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Peter Förster, Bekir Yildiz, Thomas Feuerle and Peter Hecker
Aircraft emissions represent a relevant amount of human induced CO2. Globally, up to 2.5 per cent of such emissions stem from the aviation industry. In order to investigate the effects within the atmosphere, realistic flight profiles are necessary to pro...
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Shashank Bharadwaj, Sudheer Ballare, Rohit, Munish K. Chandel
Pág. 3538 - 3551
Traffic congestion on roads not only increases the fuel consumption but consequently leads to increase in carbon dioxide emissions, outdoor air pollution as well as increase in the exposure time of the passengers. We analyse the greenhouse gas emissions ...
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