Dust nuisance and its impacts on air pollution load through suspended particles
Overview
Background & policy context:
The emission of solid dust particles suspended in the air (particulate matter - PM) caused by vehicle operation have provable negative effects on human health, especially in big cities with heavy traffic. Long-term exposure to their effects shortens expected lifespan through heart and lung diseases.
Objectives:
Acquired data on the concentration of various suspended particles' fractions in the air on the locations burdened with traffic, including their qualities and health effects, were supposed to provide national administration authorities and professional public with initial outline of air pollution status in these locations.
Worked-out guidelines should have enabled national administration authorities, legislative organs and other subjects active in the field of transport to take appropriate actions to reduce the negative impacts of dust caused by traffic.
Methodology:
Primarily transport technical data (fuel consumption, traffic flow, fleet composition, road surface quality, tyres etc.) have been used as the groundwork materials characterising PM sources during the project's execution phase.
Data on housing development (on one/both sides, height zoning) and meteorological data define the conditions for particles' dispersion and propagation in the space.
Demographic data (number, geographical distribution, age structure of the residents) then served as the input conditions to calculate the ratio of exposed inhabitants.
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