[HTML][HTML] Interventions for improving indoor and outdoor air quality in and around schools

N Rawat, P Kumar - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Students spend nearly one third of their typical day in the school environment, where they
may be exposed to harmful air pollutants. A consolidated knowledge base of interventions to …

Air quality around schools: Part IA comprehensive literature review across high-income countries

S Osborne, O Uche, C Mitsakou, K Exley… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Children are particularly vulnerable to the detrimental health impacts of poor air quality. In
the UK, recent initiatives at local council level have focussed on mitigating children's air …

[HTML][HTML] The nexus between in-car aerosol concentrations, ventilation and the risk of respiratory infection

P Kumar, H Omidvarborna, A Tiwari… - Environment International, 2021 - Elsevier
We examined the trade-offs between in-car aerosol concentrations, ventilation and
respiratory infection transmission under three ventilation settings: windows open (WO); …

School bus emissions, student health and academic performance

W Austin, G Heutel, D Kreisman - Economics of Education Review, 2019 - Elsevier
Diesel emissions from school buses expose children to high levels of air pollution; retrofitting
bus engines can substantially reduce this exposure. Using variation from 2656 retrofits …

[HTML][HTML] Morphological and chemical composition of particulate matter in buses exhaust

VV Chernyshev, AM Zakharenko, SM Ugay, TT Hien… - Toxicology Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
This research article investigates the particulate matter originated from the exhaust
emissions of 20 bus models, within the territory of Vladivostok, Russian Federation. The …

In-vehicle particle air pollution and its mitigation

L Tartakovsky, V Baibikov, J Czerwinski… - Atmospheric …, 2013 - Elsevier
This work presents results of particle mass, number and size measurements inside
passenger cars (PCs), vans and urban buses. Effects of the in-cabin air purifier on particle …

Adopting clean fuels and technologies on school buses. Pollution and health impacts in children

SD Adar, J D'Souza, L Sheppard… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: More than 25 million American children breathe polluted air on diesel school
buses. Emission reduction policies exist, but the health impacts to individual children have …

Particulate matter exposure of passengers at bus stations: A review

LTN Ngoc, M Kim, VKH Bui, D Park, YC Lee - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
This review clarifies particulate matter (PM) pollution, including its levels, the factors affecting
its distribution, and its health effects on passengers waiting at bus stations. The usual factors …

Evaluation of a high efficiency cabin air (HECA) filtration system for reducing particulate pollutants inside school buses

ES Lee, CCD Fung, Y Zhu - Environmental science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
An increasing number of studies have reported deleterious health effects of vehicle-emitted
particulate matter (PM), including PM2. 5 (aerodynamic diameter≤ 2.5 μm), black carbon …

Effects of the window openings on the micro-environmental condition in a school bus

F Li, ES Lee, B Zhou, J Liu, Y Zhu - Atmospheric environment, 2017 - Elsevier
School bus is an important micro-environment for children's health because the level of in-
cabin air pollution can increase due to its own exhaust in addition to on-road traffic …