Author(s)

R. Fusco, E. Scafe, P. Buttini & C. Gariazzo

Abstract

A simplified model for the prediction of the spatial distribution of pollution level on the urban microscale, has been developed. The model requires a reduced set of data and uses the existing similarity among different sites in the same city. Each city can be characterised by an average vehicle emission factor, and a set of meteorological parameters which are nearly constant over the city area at a fixed time. Therefore, the difference in pollution levels between two sites should depend mainly on traffic volume and local topography (street width, building height etc.). The air quality monitoring stations of the urban network are located in city areas with different traffic density. Then, using the CO level of some of these monitoring stations as a reference, it is possible to describe the whole

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