Author(s)

L. de Santoli & F. Cumo

Abstract

The present paper deals with the study of an analytical protocol to evaluate the exposure of the drivers of public vehicles to selected air pollutants in a big city. The proposed protocol has been applied to a research project in cooperation with the Italian Welfare Minister in the city of Rome; in the following, final results of both external and inside vehicle air monitoring have been reported in comparison with other experimental data coming from similar measurement campaigns. 1 Introduction The motor traffic generates atmospherical pollutants: • Directly, through the engines combustion, with the production of CO2, NOx, CO, fine particulate of different particles sizes (PM10 e PM 2,5), metals and a wide range of Volatile Organic Compounds (V.O.C.) mainly produced by incomplete combustion; since they are directly emitted fro

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