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Highway and Urban Environment

Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment symposium

  • The volume will be an up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of critical issues of the urban and highway environment, which is a key to understanding sustainability in the world's expanding urban areas
  • The symposium is rather unique because of its broad scope and competition is therefore limited. Other works tend to be more specific and cover just pollution or just pollution and logistics

Part of the book series: Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries (AGSB, volume 17)

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Table of contents (42 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
  2. Sustainable Mobility and Management

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. Sustainable mobility and management

    1. Planning for Sustainable Mobility with Personal Rapid Transit in Small European Cities

      • Alexandra Lichtenberg, Patrícia Guimarães, Heleen Podsedkowska
      Pages 3-14
    2. Financing Urban Transport Through Value Capture

      • Lucía Mejía Dorantes, José Manuel Vassallo Magro
      Pages 15-21
    3. Environmental Costs Account: A Base for Measuring Sustainability in Transport Plans

      • Andres Monzón, Alvaro Fernandez, Pablo Jorda
      Pages 23-30
    4. A GIS Raster Model for Assessing the Environmental Quality of Spain Focused on SEA and Infrastructure Planning Procedures (LATINO Model)

      • Luis G. García-Montero, Santiago Mancebo Quintana, Miguel A. Casermeiro, Isaabel Otero Pastor, Abdrés Monzón de Cáceres
      Pages 31-38
    5. Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Areas

      • María Eugenia López-Lambas
      Pages 39-47
    6. Bases for Building a Sustainability Indicator System for Transport

      • Alfredo Tolón-Becerra, Isabel Otero-Pastor, Pedro Pérez, Alejandra Ezquerra-Canalejo, Xavier Lastra-Bravo
      Pages 49-57
  4. Air Pollution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 60-60
    2. Biodiesel from Waste Olive Oil: Transesterification Kinetics, Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Consumption

      • Laureano Canoira, Ramón Alcántara, Nikolaos Tsiouvaras, M. Jesús García- Martínez, Juan García Galeán, Alberto Llamas Lois et al.
      Pages 61-69
    3. Intake Fraction for Benzene Traffic Emissions in Helsinki

      • Joana Soares, Miranda Loh, Ari Karppinen, Leena Kangas, Kari Riikonen, Matti Jantunen et al.
      Pages 71-77
    4. Seasonal Trend of Water-Soluble Ions at One TSP and Five PM2.5 Sampling Sites in Beijing, China

      • Nina Schleicher, Stefan Norra, Fahe Chai, Yizhen Chen, Shulan Wang, Doris Stüben
      Pages 87-95
    5. Utilization of Meandering in a Receptor-Oriented Solution of the Line Source Dispersion Equation

      • Jari Härkönen, Janne Berger, Mari Kauhaniemi, Juha Nikmo, Ari Karppinen
      Pages 97-104
    6. Measurements of Heavy Metals in Dry and Wet Deposition in São Paulo City

      • Ana Paula G. Fontenele, Adalgiza Fornaro, Jairo J. Pedrotti
      Pages 105-113
    7. Exposure of Cyclists to Ultra Fine Particles

      • Luc Int Panis, Nico Bleux, Rudi Torfs, Vinit Mishra, Bas de Geus, Romain Meeusen et al.
      Pages 115-122
    8. Air Pollution Exposure in an Unventilated Tunnel in Leeds, UK

      • Anil Namdeo, James Tippins
      Pages 123-131
    9. Assessment of Aerosol Concentration Sampled at Five Sites in Beijing from 2005 Till 2007

      • Stefan Norra, Nina Schleicher, Doris Stüben, Fahe Chai, Yzhen Chen, Shulan Wang
      Pages 133-140
    10. Emissions Pollutant from Diesel, Biodiesel and Natural Gas Refuse Collection Vehicles in Urban Areas

      • José M. López, Nuria Flores, Felipe Jiménez, Francisco Aparicio
      Pages 141-148
  5. Trace Elements in the Environment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 150-150

About this book

The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS). HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway Pollution". The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog, ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989 where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through measurements of PM10 emerged. The focus on air quality issues was also strengthened. In parallel, the symposium started to receive an increasing number of scientific contributions from the area of urban run off, indeed to the extent that the title of the symposium was changed to "Highway and Urban Pollution". Since then the importance of science in support of policy became increasingly important as a key aspect of the symposium. 9HUES was held at TRANSyT- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain to provide a professional and scientific forum on global examples of the science required to support pathways to a positive and sustainable future in the highway and urban environment.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Sanitary Engineering, Chalmers University Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

    Sébastien Rauch, G.M. Morrison

  • E.T.S.I. Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Centro de Investigación del, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Andrés Monzón

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