Development of a composite line source emission model for traffic interrupted microenvironments and its application in particle number emissions at a bus station

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 3269-3277

  Wang, Lina ^a   Jayaratne, Rohan ^a   Heuff, Darlene ^b   Morawska, Lidia ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b URS Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bus station; Dispersion simulation; Emission model; Exposure evaluation; Traffic interrupted

Indexed keywords

BI-DIRECTIONAL; BUS STATIONS; COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS; CRITICAL LOCATION; DISPERSION MODELLING; DISPERSION MODELS; DISPERSION SIMULATIONS; DRIVING CONDITIONS; EMISSION DISTRIBUTION; EMISSION MODEL; EMISSION RATES; EMISSION SOURCES; ENHANCED EMISSION; EXPOSURE LEVEL; FRONT END; LINE SOURCES; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PARTICLE NUMBER EMISSION; REAL VEHICLES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME SPENT; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORT ANALYSIS; VEHICLE EMISSION; VEHICLE FLEETS; VEHICLE MOVEMENTS;

BUS TERMINALS; BUSES; DISPERSIONS; ENERGY RESOURCES; FLEET OPERATIONS; GAS EMISSIONS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; VEHICLES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ATMOSPHERIC MODELING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BUS TRANSPORT; COMPOSITE; DIESEL; DISPERSION; NATURAL GAS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MICROENVIRONMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC;

EID: 77954659714     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2010.05.052     Document Type: Article

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