title: Traffic-related air quality assessment for open road tolling highway facility.
abstract: Open road tolling (ORT) design has been considered as an effective means of smoothing highway traffic and reducing travel delay on toll highways. In this paper it is demonstrated that ORT can also achieve significant air quality benefits over the conventional toll plaza design. The near roadside carbon monoxide (CO) concentration levels can be reduced by up to 37%, and diesel particulate matter (DPM) emissions can decrease by as much as 58%. These large expected air quality benefits have great implications to the regional efforts of reducing mobile source air pollution toward achieving attainment status and healthier living environment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil and Materials Engineering, Institute of Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA. janelin@uic.edu
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yu
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002248:Carbon Monoxide / Q000032:analysis; D005431:Florida; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D001335:Vehicle Emissions / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D001335:Vehicle Emissions; D002248:Carbon Monoxide