Non-Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) incorporate a wide range of machinery, with or without bodywork and wheels, and are installed with a combustion engine and not intended for carrying passengers or goods on the road. These are used in many different se...
The mixing ratios of methane (CH4) were recorded with high temporal and spatial resolution in Münster, Germany, to identify urban CH4 sources and to quantify the overall inner city CH4 emissions. Both mobile and stationary measurement techniques...
Industrial emissions of trace gases and VOCs can be an important contributor to air quality in cities. Disentangling different point sources from each other and characterizing their emissions can be particularly challenging in dense industrial areas,...
Dimethylcyclosiloxanes (DMCs) are utilized as vital monomers in the synthesis of organosilicon compounds, integral to the manufacture of mobile smart terminal devices. Toxicological studies have revealed potential endocrine-disrupting activity, repro...
Durban Port in South Africa is the largest container port and the busiest shipping terminal in sub-Saharan Africa. Approximately 60% of the country’s containerised cargo and 40% of break-bulk cargo transit through Durban. The port is near the c...
14 November 2014
A variety of single pollutant and multipollutant metrics can be used to represent exposure to traffic pollutant mixtures and evaluate their health effects. Integrated mobile source indicators (IMSIs) that combine air quality concentration and emissio...
To gain a deeper understanding of the hotly contested topic of the non-thermal biological effects of microwaves, new metrics and methodologies need to be adopted. The direction proposed in the current work, which includes peak exposure analysis and n...
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected many aspects of human life, including mobility. In a local context, the University of Oldenburg (Germany) suspended all in-person lectures and business trips in March 2020, affecting the energy use and greenhouse ga...
Mobile differential optical absorption spectroscopy (mobile DOAS) is an optical remote sensing method that can rapidly measure trace gas emission flux from air pollution sources (such as power plants, industrial areas, and cities) in real time. Gener...
Climate change is one of the largest challenges facing mankind, and the question of how to reduce carbon emissions has raised extensive concern all over the world. However, due to the lack of mechanisms to explain the impact of political factors on e...
In tandem with the advancement of urban intelligent technology, the construction of remote monitoring platforms and databases for non-road mobile machinery is gradually improving in various provinces and cities. Employing the remote monitoring platfo...
Globally, the transportation sector stands as the third largest contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nepal is no exception, relying entirely on imported petroleum products. The capital city of Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, with its unique bowl-s...
Fugitive emissions are unintentionally produced by pipeline leakage and evaporation in industrial processes and contribute 5% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHG). Frictional wear and thermal fatigue in vehicle exhaust pipe couplings and joints c...
The development of the electric mobility market in cities is becoming more and more important every year. With this development, more and more electric scooters are appearing in cities. Currently, the restrictions that result from the upcoming trends...
This study aims to deepen the understanding of the role of the urban mobility sector in the current and future greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a middle-sized city of Brazil, which is also a developing economy. With the cross-reference between road...
Air pollution is a major concern, particularly in developing countries. Road transport and mobile sources are considered the root causes of air pollutants. With the implementation of zero-carbon and zero-energy concepts at the district scale, cities...
Greenhouse emissions and air pollutants pose a global threat to the environment and human health. Emission inventories are a valuable tool in understanding emission sources and their overall impact on the environment. Most cities and countries do not...
The growing urgency to address urban air quality and climate change has intensified the need for sustainable mobility solutions that mitigate vehicular emissions. Bike-sharing systems (BSSs) represent a viable alternative; however, their precise envi...
NOX (NOX = NO + NO2) emissions measurements in Beijing are of great significance because they can aid in understanding how NOX pollution develops in mega-cities throughout China. However, NOX emissions in mega-cities are difficult to measure due to c...
As an important agricultural ecosystem, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and arsenic (As) mobilization in rice paddy fields have gained significant attention on climate change and food safety. There is a certain correlation between the GHG and As migra...
This article presents issues related to the current approval procedures in the group of off-road vehicles. Our research aimed to demonstrate significant differences between actual railway vehicle operation and stationary homologation tests regarding...
The realization of the “double carbon” goals and the development of green transportation require a focused approach to reducing carbon emissions from private cars. Starting from the perspective of social network analysis, this paper const...
Mobile observation has been widely used in the monitoring of air pollution. However, studies on pollution sources and emission characteristics based on mobile navigational observation are rarely reported in the literature. A method for quantitative s...
This study provides a comprehensive view of energy consumption and CO2 emissions for different vehicle technologies in real driving cycles. Universal correlation functions have been proposed for different vehicle technologies, associating fuel consum...
Understanding the carbon emissions of multimodal travel—comprising walking, metro, bus, cycling, and ride-hailing—is essential for promoting sustainable urban mobility. However, most existing studies focus on single-mode travel, while und...
An increase in energy-efficient transportation is one way that cities try to mitigate climate change. In coastal cities, public water transit is also undergoing transitions. A small zero-emission autonomous ferry seems to be a cutting-edge technology...
The traditional least squares method for the retrieval of CO
Industrial activities represent the primary source of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and accurate monitoring of industrial CO2 emissions is critical to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the lack of quantifiable and direct mea...
Climate change is a major global issue because transportation is a major source of pollutants and greenhouse gases that affect human health and air quality. However, to effectively prioritize and fund mitigating actions, decision-makers lack scientif...
The United States Environmental Protection Agency Greenhouse Gas Inventory only recently updated the emission factors of natural gas gathering pipelines in April 2019 from the previous estimates based on a 1990s study of distribution pipelines. Addit...
9 December 2014
This work describes a methodology for modeling the impact of traffic-generated air pollutants in an urban area. This methodology presented here utilizes road network geometry, traffic volume, temporal allocation factors, fleet mixes, and emission fac...
The lack of mobility choices in many Swedish neighbourhoods and cities designed for automobiles hinders the possibilities to shift towards more sustainable travel alternatives. Urban designers and planners can help with redesigning these neighbourhoo...
This paper presents the development of two mobile brain Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanners under the PETITION project, designed for Intensive Care Units (ICUs) and Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) applications. The ICU scanner facilitates bedside i...
5 February 2021
Livestock production systems generate nuisance odor and gaseous emissions affecting local communities and regional air quality. There are also concerns about the occupational health and safety of farmworkers. Proven mitigation technologies that are c...
Mobile machinery means a power-driven vehicle that is specifically designed and constructed to perform work on or off the road. To reduce the nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions that come from mobile machinery, a combination of a physical model and closed...
Municipal solid waste landfills are significant sources of atmospheric methane, the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide. Large emissions of methane from landfills contribute not only to global climate change, but also to local o...
The transport sector has emerged as a significant source of greenhouse gases and airborne pollutants. However, few studies have carried out a comprehensive assessment of the synergistic benefits between air pollutant and carbon emission reductions th...
This study introduces a digital twin paradigm that uses both stationary and mobile sensors and cutting-edge machine learning for urban air quality monitoring. By boosting
The primary pollutants emitted from mobile sources have become one of the main sources of urban air pollution. In this study, the primary pollutants CO, HC, NOx and PM from mobile sources in Zibo city, China are studied. Firstly, the localized mobile...
Low-emission zones (LEZs), incentivizing electric cars, park-and-ride systems, and other traffic reduction schemes, are all single measures aimed at achieving low-/zero-emission mobility. This paper aims to investigate the impact of LEZs’ passe...
The radio noise that comes from the Sun has been reported in literature as a reference signal to check the quality of dual-polarization weather radar receivers for the S-band and C-band. In most cases, the focus was on relative calibration: horizonta...
Growing populations and environmental issues are a burden for urban transport systems. Current research fails to offer multimodal integrated solutions maximizing time, cost, emissions, and satisfaction. We introduce the first optimization model integ...
As road transport is a major contributor to anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the importance of sustainable mobility planning and fleet management becomes very clear. Therefore, this article proposes a physics-based mathematical framework for dynamic esti...
Shared mobility or mobility in the sharing economy is characterised by the sharing of a vehicle instead of ownership, and the use of technology to connect users and providers. Based on a literature review, the following four emerging models are ident...
Rice fields and cultivation activities are sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Therefore, quantification of the baseline emissions is necessary to discover and implement the appropriate mitigation options for the transition to low-carbon rice...
With its profound impact, climate change has emerged as the most significant challenge for economic development. The primary cause of this global crisis is “fossil” capitalism, which denotes the pollution caused by greenhouse gas emission...
In recent years, Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) have been interpreted in many—and often conflicting—ways. We recast PEDs as a vehicle for verifiable climate neutrality and present a declaration-ready assessment that integrates (i) a cum...
Sustainability can be defined as the capacity to satisfy current needs without compromising future generations. Sustainable development clashes with the transport sector because of the latter’s high fossil fuels usage, consumption of natural re...
Quarantining at home during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly restricted human mobility such as visits to parks, grocery stores, workplaces, retail places, and transit stations. In this research, we analyzed how the changes in human mobility during...
We built an emission inventory (EI) for the megacity of Bogotá, Colombia for 2012, which for the first time augments traditional industrial and mobile sources by including commercial sources, biogenic sources, and resuspended dust. We characterized t...
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