Road Emission: Recent Trends, Current Progress and Future Direction
A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2023) | Viewed by 4885
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Interests: air pollution studies; atmospheric pollution; air quality; particulate matter; aerosol chemistry; environment; environmental statistics; environmental analysis; air pollution monitoring; road traffic
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Interests: air pollution studies; atmospheric pollution; air quality; particulate matter; aerosol chemistry; environmental impact assessment; environmental analysis; air pollution monitoring
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Dear Colleagues,
Road traffic and road infrastructure represent a linear source of environmental pollution, often directly at the level of the surrounding terrain, which subsequently affects the dispersion of pollutants emitted by road traffic. The most serious problem is air contamination with pollutants (particulate matter (PM), nitrogen oxides, carbon oxides, etc.) and noise emissions, primarily because of their significant impact on human health, especially in large cities with high traffic density. The damage to human health caused by PM emissions from road traffic can be disproportionately large compared to other sources of PM emissions, because the highest emission levels tend to be located in areas with the highest population density, leading to high levels of exposure. The share of PM emissions from non-exhaust sources has increased in recent years due to a significant reduction in the amount of PM from exhaust emissions. Non-exhaust emissions are expected to be responsible for the vast majority of PM emissions from road traffic in the coming years. Air quality levels are greatly important to society as extreme air pollution affects the environment and residential areas, especially in the winter months, when the combination of air pollution sources and secondary factors exceed the limit values of harmful substances intended to protect the health of people and animals. Therefore, it is advisable to know more about this problem, i.e. which pollutants are the critical ones, how high the concentrations of pollutants are, to what extent can they be harmful to humans, and which sources of air pollution are potential causes of harmful substances. Subsequently, based on a closer knowledge of the state and origin of air pollution, we can establish measures to improve air quality.
Dr. Dušan Jandačka
Dr. Daniela Ďurčanská
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- road traffic
- electric vehicles
- air pollution
- noise emissions
- particulate matter
- air quality modelling
- measurement of air pollution
- vehicle emissions factors
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