Exposure of motorcycle, car and bus commuters to carbon monoxide on a main road in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, Israel

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 186, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 8413-8424

  Potchter, Oded ^a   Oz, Meirav ^a   Brenner, Shmuel ^a   Yaakov, Yaron ^a   Schnell, Izhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; Commuters; Personal exposure; Transport microenvironment

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; CARBON MONOXIDE; EXPOSURE CONTROLS; MOTORCYCLES; POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS; SURGE PROTECTION; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLES;

BUS COMMUTERS; COMMUTERS; METROPOLITAN AREA; MONITORING STATIONS; MOTOR VEHICLE; PERSONAL EXPOSURES; POLLUTION LEVEL; TRANSPORT MICROENVIRONMENT;

CARBON;

CARBON MONOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON EMISSION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); METROPOLITAN AREA; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BUS; CAR; COMMUTER; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MICROCLIMATE; MISCELLANEOUS NAMED GROUPS; MOTOR VEHICLE; MOTORCYCLE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; EXHAUST GAS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ISRAEL; TEL AVIV;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AUTOMOBILES; CARBON MONOXIDE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MOTOR VEHICLES; MOTORCYCLES; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84926669730     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-014-4013-1     Document Type: Article

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