Adapt by adopting cleaner vehicles? — Evidence from a low-emission zone policy in Nanchang, China

Ye, Jingjing; Qin, Zhilong; Chen, Xiaoguang

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2021.101598

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“…There is indeed some evidence that freight transport and fleet composition are affected by the implementation of LEZs, but the change, relative to e.g. the national average, appears to be short-lived (Ellison et al 2013, André et al 2017, Settey et al 2019, Peters et al 2021, Ye et al 2021. LEZs have been implemented in over 250 European cities in the last decade and a half, with varying approaches and rules (Cruz andMontenon 2016, Aguayo et al 2021).…”

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Low-cost system application for policy assessment: a case study from Berlin

Caseiro,

Schmitz,

Kerschbaumer

et al. 2024

Environ. Res.: Health

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Local policies are part of the toolbox available to decision makers to improve air quality but their effectiveness is underevaluated and underreported. We evaluate the impact of the pedestrianization of a street in the city centre of Berlin on the local air pollution. Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) was measured on the street where the policy was implemented and on two parallel streets using low-cost sensor systems supported by periodic calibrations against reference-grade instruments and constrained by passive samplers. Further measurements of NO2 were conducted with a reference-grade instrument mounted on a mobile platform. The concentrations were evaluated against the urban background (UB) to isolate the policy-related signal from natural fluctuations, long-term trends and the COVID-19 lockdown. Our analysis shows that the most likely result of the intervention is a reduced NO2 concentrations to the level of the UB on weekdays for the pedestrian zone. Kerbside NO2 concentrations exhibited substantial differences to the concentrations measured at lampposts highlighting the difficulty for such measurements to capture personal exposure. The results have implications for policy, showing that an intervention on the local traffic patterns can possibly be effective in improving local air quality.

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