Climate change mitigation in the transport sector through urban planning: A review

HB Dulal, G Brodnig, CG Onoriose - Habitat International, 2011 - Elsevier
The transport sector contributes significantly to the emission of global greenhouse gases
(GHGs) resulting in a rise in global temperature and climate change. A troubling aspect of …

Urban and air pollution: a multi-city study of long-term effects of urban landscape patterns on air quality trends

L Liang, P Gong - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Most air pollution research has focused on assessing the urban landscape effects of
pollutants in megacities, little is known about their associations in small-to mid-sized cities …

[HTML][HTML] A spatiotemporal and graph-based analysis of dockless bike sharing patterns to understand urban flows over the last mile

Y Yang, A Heppenstall, A Turner, A Comber - Computers, Environment and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The recent emergence of dockless bike sharing systems has resulted in new patterns of
urban transport. Users can begin and end trips from their origin and destination locations …

Urban Form, Air Pollution, and CO2 Emissions in Large US Metropolitan Areas

B Bereitschaft, K Debbage - The Professional Geographer, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we explore the relationships between urban form and air pollution among 86
US metropolitan areas. Urban form was quantified using preexisting sprawl indexes and …

Estimating the impact of urbanization on air quality in China using spatial regression models

C Fang, H Liu, G Li, D Sun, Z Miao - Sustainability, 2015 - mdpi.com
Urban air pollution is one of the most visible environmental problems to have accompanied
China's rapid urbanization. Based on emission inventory data from 2014, gathered from 289 …

Urban form and air quality in the United States

J McCarty, N Kaza - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between urban spatial structure and air quality
in the United States. By using urban landscape metrics framework, we empirically examine …

The potential of micro-and nanoplastics to exacerbate the health impacts and global burden of non-communicable diseases

S Krause, V Ouellet, D Allen, S Allen, K Moss… - Cell Reports …, 2024 - cell.com
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) constitute one of the highest burdens of disease
globally and are associated with inflammatory responses in target organs. There is …

Transport impacts on atmosphere and climate: Land transport

E Uherek, T Halenka, J Borken-Kleefeld… - Atmospheric …, 2010 - Elsevier
Emissions from land transport, and from road transport in particular, have significant impacts
on the atmosphere and on climate change. This assessment gives an overview of past …

Real-time profiling of fine-grained air quality index distribution using UAV sensing

Y Yang, Z Zheng, K Bian, L Song… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Given significant air pollution problems, air quality index (AQI) monitoring has recently
received increasing attention. In this paper, we design a mobile AQI monitoring system …

Effects of urban form on haze pollution in China: Spatial regression analysis based on PM2. 5 remote sensing data

M Yuan, Y Huang, H Shen, T Li - Applied geography, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, haze pollution has posed a great threat to public health in any Chinese
cities. It is necessary to explore different prevention methods for haze, and shaping a …