WIT Press

Air Pollution In Lithuanian Cities

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

44

Pages

5

Published

1999

Size

394 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/UT990041

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A.Jurkauskas & J.Ilgakojyte

Abstract

The increasing air pollution in the Lithuanian cities during the last years impacts health of people and mortality. One of the main air pollution sources becomes the city transport. The results of total pollution show the tendency of increasing pollution in the cities, after the short decreasing (it was affected by economical recession). The ways to decrease air pollution are analyzed taking into consideration specific economic situation, infrastructure of cities and streets, optimization of whole transport system. Applications of the Weber-Fechner's dependence law show that an urgent necessity exists to take the measures to reduce air pollution as the influence of pollutants on human health is rapidly approaching toward the criti

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