ESTIMATED VEHICLE POLLUTION AND AIR QUALITY IN THE MAIN ROADS OF THE ROAD SYSTEM OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF JUIZ DE FORA - MG

Authors

  • Cássia Castro Martins Ferreira Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
  • Daiane Evangelista Oliveira Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/rdg.v0ispe.117682

Keywords:

Air pollution, Vehicular pollution, Air quality

Abstract

The increase in urban population has a growing process requiring mobility, but has been focusing on the car, greatly increasing the number of cars on the streets and the resulting air pollution. Making it vital for the control of air pollution and aiming to improve the quality of urban life it is essential to retain control, monitoring and establish measures to ensure that air pollution does not deteriorate. Thus, this article applies to the main routes of the road system of the central area of the city of Juiz de Fora, a methodology proposed by Taco (2006) and Filizola (2005) of vehicular pollution estimate, allowing know the amount of CO and NOx / g / km / h. The estimated values have created scenarios of vehicle emission levels in the study area. In addition, a series of thematic maps of the study area was established in order to assess the contribution of urban space in dispersal processes / concentration of pollution in different parts of car count. Finally it verified the relationship between the estimated and the air quality index (CETESB, 2013), which is detected that the worst conditions of air pollution are present in the most narrow roads and elevate traffic flow.

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Author Biographies

  • Cássia Castro Martins Ferreira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
    Professora de climatologia no curso de bacharelado em Geografia e no Mestrado Acadêmico de Geografia, na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora.
  • Daiane Evangelista Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
    Mestre em Geografia pela Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Published

2016-10-24

How to Cite

Ferreira, C. C. M., & Oliveira, D. E. (2016). ESTIMATED VEHICLE POLLUTION AND AIR QUALITY IN THE MAIN ROADS OF THE ROAD SYSTEM OF THE CENTRAL CITY OF JUIZ DE FORA - MG. Revista Do Departamento De Geografia, spe, 98-114. https://doi.org/10.11606/rdg.v0ispe.117682