Saturday driving restrictions fail to improve air quality in Mexico City

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Davis, Lucas W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; DRIVER; EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; MEXICO CITY; POLLUTION MONITORING; ARTICLE;

EID: 85021421339     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep41652     Document Type: Article

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