Integrated assessment on effectiveness of intervened vehicular emission control programmes in Hong Kong air quality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
King Yan Tang
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Vehicular Emission ◽  
Control Programmes

scholarly journals A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OF VEHICULAR EMISSION CONTROL POLICY AND PRACTICES: AN INTERFACE WITH KATHMANDU VALLEY CASE, NEPAL

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Bhupendra Das ◽  
Prakash V. Bhave ◽  
Siva Praveen Puppala ◽  
Rejina M. Byanju
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Transport Sector ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Vehicular Emission ◽  
The Developed Countries

Transport sector is growing most rapidly around the world in line with the urban and socio-economic growth, which is contributing to severe air pollution. Air pollution has been of much concern mainly due to air quality, human exposure, public health, climate change, and visibility reduction. At present, in the media and policy arena, significant attention is given to the transport air pollution and its effect. Although most of the developed countries established vehicular emission control practices, it is very primitive in the developing countries including Nepal. This paper highlights global policies/legislations that have been practiced for emissions control from high emitting vehicles based on the available literature. The insights and lessons based information presented in this paper will add value to the policy makers for creating strong policy packages of air quality management for Kathmandu valley including other parts of Nepal.

scholarly journals Air quality improvement in a megacity: implications from 2015 Beijing Parade Blue pollution control actions

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Xu ◽  
Wei Song ◽  
Yangyang Zhang ◽  
Xuejun Liu ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Air Quality Improvement ◽  
Emission Control Measures ◽  
Control Regions

Abstract. The implementation of strict emission control measures in Beijing and surrounding regions during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade provided a valuable opportunity to investigate related air quality improvements in a megacity. We measured NH3, NO2 and PM2.5 at multiple sites in and outside Beijing and summarized concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2 and CO in 291 cities across China from a national urban air quality monitoring network between August and September 2015. Consistently significant reductions of 12–35 % for NH3 and 33–59 % for NO2 in different areas of Beijing during the emission control period (referred to as the Parade Blue period) were observed compared with measurements in the pre- and post-Parade Blue periods without emission controls. Average NH3 and NO2 concentrations at sites near traffic were strongly correlated and showed positive and significant responses to traffic reduction measures, suggesting that traffic is an important source of both NH3 and NOx in urban Beijing. Daily concentrations of PM2.5 and secondary inorganic aerosol (sulfate, ammonium and nitrate) at the urban and rural sites both decreased during the Parade Blue period. During (after) the emission control period, concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2 and CO from the national city-monitoring network showed the largest decrease (increase) of 34–72 % (50–214 %) in Beijing, a smaller decrease (a moderate increase) of 1–32 % (16–44 %) in emission control regions outside Beijing and an increase (decrease) of 6–16 % (−2–7 %) in non-emission-control regions of China. Integrated analysis of modelling and monitoring results demonstrated that emission control measures made a major contribution to air quality improvement in Beijing compared with a minor contribution from favourable meteorological conditions during the Parade Blue period. These results show that controls of secondary aerosol precursors (NH3, SO2 and NOx) locally and regionally are key to curbing air pollution in Beijing and probably in other mega cities worldwide.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Regional Emission Control Based in Photochemical Air Quality Modelling

10.5772/17536 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angel Rodriguez ◽  
Santiago Saavedra ◽  
Maria Dios ◽  
Carmen Torres ◽  
Jose A. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Quality ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Air Quality Modelling

scholarly journals Evaluating Vehicle Emission Control Policies using on-Road Mobile Measurements and Continuous Wavelet Transform: a Case Study during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, China 2014

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ziqiang Tan ◽  
Yanwen Wang ◽  
Chunxiang Ye ◽  
Yi Zhu ◽  
Yingruo Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wavelet Transform ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Continuous Wavelet Transform ◽  
Vehicle Emissions ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Vehicle Emission ◽  
Continuous Wavelet ◽  
Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation

Abstract. Vehicle emissions are major sources of atmospheric pollutants in urban areas, especially in megacities around the world. Various vehicle emission control policies have been implemented to improve air quality. However, the effectiveness of these policies is unclear, due to a lack of systematic evaluation and sound methodologies. During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum, China 2014, the Chinese government implemented the strictest vehicle emission control policy in the country's history, which provided an opportunity to evaluate its effectiveness, based on our recently developed method. To evaluate the vehicle emission reduction, we used a mobile research platform to measure the main air pollutants (PM2.5, black carbon (BC), SO2, CO, NOx and O3) on the 4th ring road of the city of Beijing, combined with a continuous wavelet transform method (CWT) to separate out "instantaneous emissions" by passing vehicles. The results suggested that our measurements captured the spatial distribution and variation of atmospheric pollutant concentrations on the 4th ring road. The "instantaneous concentration" decomposed by the CWT method represents on-road emissions better than other methods reported in the literature. With this method, we found that the daytime vehicle emission of CO and NOx decreased by 28.1 and 16.3 %, respectively, during the APEC period relative to the period before APEC, and by 39.3 and 38.5 %, respectively, relative to the period after APEC. The nighttime vehicle emissions of CO and NOx decreased by 56.0 and 60.7 %, respectively, during the APEC period relative to the period after APEC. Because vehicle emissions of NOx and CO contribute considerably to the total emissions of these pollutants in Beijing, the vehicle emission control policy implementation was extremely successful in controlling air quality during APEC 2014, China.

scholarly journals Air Quality Improvement in a Megacity: Implications from 2015 Beijing Parade Blue Pollution-Control Actions

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wen Xu ◽  
Wei Song ◽  
Yangyang Zhang ◽  
Xuejun Liu ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Control Period ◽  
Emission Control ◽  
Monitoring Network ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Beijing City ◽  
Air Quality Improvement ◽  
Emission Control Measures

Abstract. The implementation of strict emission control measures in Beijing and surrounding regions during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade provided a valuable opportunity to investigate related air quality improvements in a megacity. We measured NH3, NO2 and PM2.5 at multiple sites in and outside Beijing and summarized concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2 and CO in 291 cities across China from a national urban air quality monitoring network between August and September 2015. Consistently significant reductions of 12–35 % for NH3 and 33–59 % for NO2 in different areas of Beijing city during the emission control period (referred to as the Parade Blue period) were observed compared with measurements in the pre- and post-Parade Blue periods without emission controls. Average NH3 and NO2 concentrations at sites near traffic were strongly correlated and showed positive and significant responses to traffic reduction measures, suggesting that traffic is an important source of both NH3 and NOx in urban Beijing. Daily concentrations of PM2.5 and secondary inorganic aerosol (sulfate, ammonium, and nitrate) at the urban and rural sites both decreased during the Parade Blue period. Concentrations of PM2.5, PM10, NO2, SO2 and CO from the national city-monitoring network showed the largest decrease (34–72 %) in Beijing, a smaller decrease (1–32 %) in North China (excluding Beijing), and an increase (6–16 %) in other regions of China during the emission control period. Integrated analysis of modeling and monitoring results demonstrated that emission control measures made a major contribution to air quality improvement in Beijing compared with a minor contribution from favorable meteorological conditions during the Parade Blue period. These results show that controls of secondary aerosol precursors (NH3, SO2 and NOx) locally and regionally are key to curbing air pollution in Beijing and probably in other mega cities worldwide.

scholarly journals A review on Assessment of Air Pollution due to Vehicular Emission in Traffic Area

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aneri A. Desai
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Motor Vehicles ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Ambient Air Quality ◽  
Vehicular Emission ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Air Pollution Monitoring

In Indian metropolitan cities, the extensive growth of the motor vehicles has resulted in the deterioration of environmental quality and human health. The concentrations of pollutants at major traffic areas are exceeding the permissible limits. Public are facing severe respiratory diseases and other deadly cardio-vascular diseases In India. Immediate needs for vehicular air pollution monitoring and control strategies for urban cities are necessary. Vehicular emission is the main source of deteriorating the ambient air quality of major Indian cities due to rapid urbanization. Total vehicular population is increased to 15 Lacks as per recorded data of Regional Transport Organization (RTO) till 2014-2015. This study is focused on the assessment of major air pollution parameters responsible for the air pollution due to vehicular emission. The major air pollutants responsible for air pollution due to vehicular emissions are PM10, PM2.5, Sox, Nox, HC, CO2 and CO and Other meterological parameters like Ambient temperature, Humidity, Wind direction and Wind Speed. Sampling and analysis of parameters is carried out according to National Ambient Air Quality Standards Guidelines (NAAQS) (2009) and IS 5128.

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