Air Pollution In Lithuanian Cities
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Free (open access)
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Volume
44
Pages
5
Published
1999
Size
394 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/UT990041
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
A.Jurkauskas & J.Ilgakojyte
Abstract
The increasing air pollution in the Lithuanian cities during the last years impacts health of people and mortality. One of the main air pollution sources becomes the city transport. The results of total pollution show the tendency of increasing pollution in the cities, after the short decreasing (it was affected by economical recession). The ways to decrease air pollution are analyzed taking into consideration specific economic situation, infrastructure of cities and streets, optimization of whole transport system. Applications of the Weber-Fechner's dependence law show that an urgent necessity exists to take the measures to reduce air pollution as the influence of pollutants on human health is rapidly approaching toward the criti
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