Highway and Urban Environment : Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
| Series: | Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.