Highway and Urban Environment : Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium - Morrison, G.M.; Rauch, Sébastien.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Vehicle Consumption and Emissions and Traffic Management -- Engineering-economic simulations of sustainable transport policies -- Life cycle environmental benefits of biodiesel production and use in Spain -- Engine management for Flex Fuel plus compressed natural gas vehicles -- Mobility and Environment in Spain -- Influence of gear-changing behaviour on fuel use and vehicular exhaust emissions -- Effect of speed reduction on emissions of heavy duty lorries -- Gender-linked disparity in vehicle exhaust emissions? Results from an activity-based survey -- Floating Automotive Data Collection -- Reducing car trip and pollutant emissions through strategic transport planning in Madrid, Spain -- Evaluation of car control measures based on an Internet-based travel survey system -- Integrating cycling in Bus Rapid Transit system in Accra -- Air Pollution and Air Quality -- Evaluation of hydrogen peroxide in rainwater in downtown São Paulo -- The comparison of pollutant concentrations in liquid falling and deposited precipitation, and throughfall -- Wet deposition at Llandaff station in Cardiff -- Monitoring the atmospheric deposition of particulate-associated urban contaminants, Coventry, UK -- Size, morphological and chemical characterization of aerosols polluting the Beijing atmosphere in January/February 2005 -- Air pollution levels in two São Paulo subway stations -- Air quality nearby different typologies of motorways: Intercomparison and correlation -- Assessment of air pollution in the vicinity of major alpine routes -- The relative impact of automobile catalysts and Russian smelters on PGE deposition in Greenland -- Cultural heritage stock at risk from air pollution -- Contaminated Environments and Remediation -- Organic contaminants in urban sediments and vertical leaching in road ditches -- The use of an epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides L.) as bioindicator of heavy metal pollution in São Pauo, Brazil -- On-line matrix separation for the determination of PGEs in sediments by ICP-MS -- Determination of PGE and REE in urban matrices and fingerprinting of traffic emission contamination -- Sorption behaviour of Pt, Pd, and Rh on different soil components: results of an experimental study -- Reactive soil barriers for removal of chromium(VI) from contaminated soil -- Cleaning of highway runoff using a reactive filter treatment plant - a pilot-scale column study -- Heavy metal removal efficiency in a kaolinite-sand media filtration pilot-scale installation -- Storm Water -- Site assessment of road-edge grassed channels for highway drainage -- Evaluation of the runoff water quality from a tunnel wash -- An investigation of urban water and sediment ecotoxicity in relation to metal concentrations -- Establishing a procedure to predict highway runoff quality in Portugal -- A field microcosm method to determine the impact of sediments and soils contaminated by road runoff on indigenous aquatic macroinvertebrates -- Assessment of storm water ecotoxicity using a battery of biotests -- Is catchment imperviousness a good indicator of ecosystem health? -- Storm Water Treatment -- Evolution on pollutant removal efficiency in storm water ponds due to changes in pond morphology -- Characterization of road runoff and innovative treatment technologies -- Development and full-scale implementation of a new treatment scheme for road runoff -- Reactive filters for removal of dissolved metals in highway runoff -- Designing filters for copper removal for the secondary treatment of storm water -- Modelling the oxygen mass balance of wet detention ponds receiving highway runoff -- Monitoring and modelling the performance of a wet pond for treatment of highway runoff in cold climates -- Can we close the long-term mass balance equation for pollutants in highway ponds? -- Environmental Assessment and Effects -- Cardiovascular and respiratory variability related to air pollution and meteorological variables in Oporto, Portugal - preliminary study -- Component analysis on respiratory disease variability at São Paulo -- Management and optimization of environmental information using integrated technology: a case study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil -- Using Bayesian inference to manage uncertainty in probabilistic risk assessments in urban environments -- An assessment framework for urban water systems - a new approach combining environmental systems with service supply and consumer perspectives -- Large area noise evaluation.
Keywords: Environmental management; Air pollution; Environmental pollution; Water pollution; Environmental Management; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution; Terrestrial Pollution; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution