A review of strategies for mitigating roadside air pollution in urban street canyons

Y Huang, C Lei, CH Liu, P Perez, H Forehead… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban street canyons formed by high-rise buildings restrict the dispersion of vehicle
emissions, which pose severe health risks to the public by aggravating roadside air quality …

A review of factors impacting exposure to PM2. 5, ultrafine particles and black carbon in Asian transport microenvironments

P Kumar, AP Patton, JL Durant, HC Frey - Atmospheric Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The World Health Organization estimates 3.7 million deaths in 2012 in low-and
middle-income Asian countries due to outdoor air pollution. However, these estimates do not …

Multi-scale spatiotemporal graph convolution network for air quality prediction

L Ge, K Wu, Y Zeng, F Chang, Y Wang, S Li - Applied Intelligence, 2021 - Springer
Air pollution is a serious environmental problem that has attracted much attention. Air quality
prediction can provide useful information for urban environmental governance decision …

Urban form and air pollution: Clustering patterns of urban form factors related to particulate matter in Seoul, Korea

H Ahn, J Lee, A Hong - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the aggressive emission control efforts in Korea over the past decades, surface-
level particulate matter (PM) concentrations have increased in Seoul since 2012. What …

[HTML][HTML] On the accuracy of idealized sources in CFD simulations of pollutant dispersion in an urban street canyon

P Qin, A Ricci, B Blocken - Building and Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Idealized pollutant sources are widely used by the scientific community to replicate traffic
emissions in wind tunnel tests and CFD simulations. However, it is unclear to what extent …

Assessment of pedestrian exposure and deposition of PM10, PM2. 5 and ultrafine particles at an urban roadside: a case study of Xi'an, China

H Lv, H Li, Z Qiu, F Zhang, J Song - Atmospheric Pollution Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Assessment of pedestrian exposure and lung deposition is critical to better understanding
the health risks resulting from exposure to ambient particles, and to develop site-specific risk …

Estimating urban PM2. 5 concentration: An analysis on the nonlinear effects of explanatory variables based on gradient boosted regression tree

X Hao, X Hu, T Liu, C Wang, L Wang - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
It is important for air pollution study and control to understand the relationships between the
concentrations of fine particulate matter and the influencing factors. This study builds a PM2 …

Field investigation for ambient wind speed and direction effects exposure of cyclists to PM2. 5 and PM10 in urban street environments

H Hu, Q Chen, Q Qian, X Zhou, Y Chen, Y Cai - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
In China, an increasing number of cyclists commute on urban streets. Cyclists are usually
exposed to high traffic-related particulate matter (PM) concentrations. The distribution of …

Variation, sources and historical trend of black carbon in Beijing, China based on ground observation and MERRA-2 reanalysis data

W Qin, Y Zhang, J Chen, Q Yu, S Cheng, W Li… - Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Based on the ground-measurements and MERRA-2 (Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for
Research and Applications, Version 2) reanalysis data, the temporal-spatial variation of …

Impacts of viaduct and geometry configurations on the distribution of traffic-related particulate matter in urban street canyon

KF Lu, ZR Peng - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Viaduct is a ubiquitous transportation infrastructure in the congested megacities worldwide
to improve the accessibility and capacity of urban transportation network. However, there is …