The current work evaluates the impact of urban trees over the dispersion of carbon
monoxide (CO) emitted by road traffic, due to the induced modification of the wind flow …

Based on the work of Jensen [Jensen, SS, 1998. Mapping human exposure to traffic air
pollution using GIS. Journal of Hazardous Materials 61 (1–3), 385–392; Jensen, SS, 1999. A …

The impacts of autonomous vehicles (AV) on safety, energy and atmospheric emissions
have been recognised to be important issues, but an air quality impact assessment is …

Air pollution is an environmental and social issue at different spatial scales, especially in a
climate change context, with an expected decrease of air quality. Despite the technological …

Air pollution continues to be one of the main issues in urban areas. In addition to air quality
plans and emission abatement policies, additional measures for high pollution episodes are …

During the last years, specific air quality problems have been detected in the urban area of
Porto (Portugal). Both PM10 and NO 2 limit values have been surpassed in several air …

Several harbors, like the Port of Leixões (Porto, Portugal), are located near urban and
industrial areas, places where residential urban areas, highways and the refinery industry …

In the last years, there has been an increase of scientific studies confirming that long-and
short-term exposure to particulate matter (PM) pollution leads to adverse health effects. The …

In the last decades, traffic microsimulation platforms have a growing complexity allowing a
detailed description of vehicle traffic dynamics in a second-by-second basis. However, to …

When ambient air quality standards established in the EU Directive 2008/50/EC are
exceeded, Member States are obliged to develop and implement Air Quality Plans (AQP) to …