Estimating Vehicle Emissions For The Conurbation Of Greater Manchester
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
10
Pages
8
Published
1995
Size
702 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/AIR950462
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
D. Rayfield, J.W.S. Longhurst, D.E. Conlan, A.F.R. Watson & T. Hewison
Abstract
Air pollution from road transport is a major environmental problem in urban areas. The methods used in developing an emissions estimation procedure for road traffic in Greater Manchester is presented. This process builds on an existing traffic flow database, by incorporating the facility to estimate current and future emissions from road traffic by entering emission factors, the composition of the vehicle fleet and the daily traffic flow profile. The use of this procedure allied with tools such as Geographical Information Systems, will be important in helping to formulate local air quality management plans and improve the capability of urban
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