Assessment of vehicle emissions projections in Madrid (Spain) from 2004 to 2012 considering several control strategies

Lumbreras, Julio; Valdés, Manuel; Borge, Rafael; Rodríguez, María Encarnación

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2008.01.026

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“…Lumbreras et al [5] developed a methodology with a software tool called EmiTrans to quantify the effect of policies and measures in emission reductions from road transport. This methodology was focused on exhaust emission calculation for a vehicle fleet preparing Excel spreadsheets to be used by Copert 4 (Gkatzoflias et al [6]).…”

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A model to estimate road transport emissions from the entire life cycle

Lumbreras

Ballarín

López³

et al. 2010

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Road transport is the most relevant source of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions in developed countries. To achieve global emission reductions in this sector it is necessary to take into account the life cycle of each technology. Therefore, policy makers need tools to compare policies and measures in terms of emissions in their life cycle.In this study, a methodology to account GHG emissions from life cycle for a vehicle fleet (e.g. from a country, a company, a city, etc.) was developed. Moreover, a software tool called GlobalTRANS was designed and built to compute emissions from the fleet. It improves a previous tool called EmiTRANS that estimated only exhaust emissions (Tank-to-Wheel) incorporating Well-toTank and vehicle manufacturing emissions.GlobalTRANS calculates and sums up emissions in terms of CO 2 equivalent. Default coefficients have been calculated for Spain but this tool allows users to change the coefficients and substitute them.Finally, the methodology has been successfully tested for the calculation of several fleets and pathways and results were compared with other Life Cycle Assessments (LCA). This paper presents an example from a diesel Euro 4 light duty vehicle showing that vehicle use means 79% of total emissions, while diesel production accounts for 13% and vehicle manufacture for 8%.

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A model to estimate road transport emissions from the entire life cycle

Lumbreras

Ballarín

López³

et al. 2010

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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“…It is conventional wisdom that the main part of the European policies addressing the reduction of GHG emissions and energy use, with a view to contributing to the energy independence of the EU, specifically regards the building and transport sector [1]- [4].…”

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Experimental measurements of the thermal conductivity of insulant elements made of natural materials: preliminary results

Baccilieri¹,

Bornino²,

Fotia³

et al. 2016

IJHT

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Current policies addressing the energy efficiency of building constructions urge planners and manufacturers to properly design the edifice envelope which has to be conceived with a view to both optimizing its thermal performances and complying with the local and national regulations. To achieve this target, for the last few years, researchers involved in building industry have been devising new structures able to realize proper levels of envelope thermal insulation, also employing materials characterized by low environmental impacts owing to their natural origin (such as vegetal fibers) or because derived from industrial/ agricultural process waste. As a contribution to this topic, the purpose of this paper is to assess the insulation features of various structures made up of totally natural and biocompatible materials, in order to try to single out the optimal configurations. The studied mixtures, as a matter of fact, consist of a natural binder (such as hydraulic lime NHL 3.5) and a biocompatible inert material (such as dry platanus acerifolia fruit, natural cork, etc.) with various mass ratio compositions. The measured parameter is the thermal conductivity and the method used is the one stated by the ASTM C518 -04 Standard, which employs a heat flow meter apparatus establishing steady state one-dimensional heat flux through a test specimen between two parallel plates at constant but different temperatures. Fourier's law of heat conduction is, hence, used to calculate thermal conductivity of the specimen.

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“…Indeed, an estimated 10 % of the global pollution is generated by road vehicles which are furthermore accountable for 20 % of the European anthropogenic CO 2 emissions [4], while local impact of various air pollutants generated by road traffic, such as CO, NOx SO 2 , and particulate matter with a diameter of 10 micrometres or less (PM 10 ), has been documented [5][6][7].…”

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The Assessment of Road Traffic Air Pollution by Means of an Average Emission Parameter

Marino

Nucara

Pietrafesa

et al. 2015

Environ Model Assess

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This work proposes a simple methodology to assess pollution loads discharged by road traffic within a specific temporal and spatial domain, in the case that detailed disaggregated data about vehicle fleet composition are not available at local scale. The adopted methodology starts by defining a useful specific emission function that allows easy calculation of the total amount of pollutant emissions in a year. The function, called yearly average vehicle (YAV), is representative of the annual average emission factor of a homogeneous category of vehicles. The employment of the YAV permits easy assessment of different scenarios and allows the analysis of the influence of different items that could alter the global amount of pollutant emissions released by road traffic, such as improvements of emissive characteristics of vehicles, changes in the transportation demand, and variations of traffic flow path lengths. The procedure has been applied to the urban area of the Italian city of Messina, where public administration has recently adopted a measure aimed at alleviating the load of the traffic pollution inside the urban area.

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Assessment of vehicle emissions projections in Madrid (Spain) from 2004 to 2012 considering several control strategies

Cited by 48 publications

References 12 publications

A model to estimate road transport emissions from the entire life cycle

A model to estimate road transport emissions from the entire life cycle

Experimental measurements of the thermal conductivity of insulant elements made of natural materials: preliminary results

The Assessment of Road Traffic Air Pollution by Means of an Average Emission Parameter

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