Year: 2019
Type: preprint
Abstract: The link between transport related emissions and human health is a major issue for city municipalities worldwide. PM emissions from exhaust and non-exhaust sources are one of the main worrying contributors to air-pollution. In this paper, we challenge the notion that a ban on internal combustion engine vehicles will result in clean and safe air in our cities, since emissions from tyres and other non-exhaust sources are expected to increase in the near future. To this end, we present data from the city of Dublin that document that the current amount of tyre-related PM emissions in the city might already be above or close to the levels deemed safe by the World Health Organization. As a solution to this problem, we present a feedback-enabled distributed access control mechanism and ride-sharing scheme to limit the number of vehicles in a city and therefore maintain the amount of transport-related PM to safe levels.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Language: English
Subfield: Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2949719577