Classification of road traffic and roadside pollution concentrations for assessment of personal exposure

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 282-287

  Chen, Haibo ^a   Namdeo, Anil ^a   Bell, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

k Means algorithm; PEFD; Roadside pollution concentrations; RPM and AURN; Traffic classifications

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; FLEET OPERATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; URBAN PLANNING;

AURN; K-MEANS ALGORITHM; PERSONAL EXPOSURE FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS (PEFD); ROADSIDE POLLUTION CONCENTRATIONS; RPM; TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATIONS;

POLLUTION CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; MODELING; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION MONITORING; ROAD; URBAN POLLUTION;

CITY OF WESTMINSTER; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; LONDON [ENGLAND]; MARYLEBONE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35349007623     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2007.04.006     Document Type: Article

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