Street characteristics and traffic factors determining road users' exposure to black carbon

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 447, Issue , 2013, Pages 72-79

  Dons, Evi ^a,b   Temmerman, Philip ^b   Van Poppel, Martine ^a   Bellemans, Tom ^b   Wets, Geert ^b   Int Panis, Luc ^a,b  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Aethalometer; Black carbon; GPS; Mobile monitoring; Personal exposure; Traffic

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MODE; AETHALOMETER; AT-SPEED; BELGIUM; BLACK CARBON; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; FLANDERS; IN-VEHICLE; INTERPOLATION METHOD; MICROENVIRONMENTS; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; ROAD SEGMENTS; ROAD SPEED; ROAD USERS; TRAFFIC FACTORS; TRAFFIC INTENSITY; TRAVEL SPEED; TRIP DURATION; URBAN ROAD; VEHICLE EMISSION;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

ROADS AND STREETS;

BLACK CARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GPS; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBANIZATION;

ACCELERATION; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXHAUST GAS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; VELOCITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BELGIUM; BICYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; SOOT; URBANIZATION;

BELGIUM; FLANDERS;

EID: 84873263386     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.12.076     Document Type: Article

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