Rating of hazardous substance emissions by vehicular transport as a means of improving the environment of large cities

O.A. Stavrov and M.A. Boyeva

Energy, 1987, vol. 12, issue 10, 1057-1062

Abstract: The methodology used in the U.S.S.R. to select strategies for reducing environmental pollution is described. Data are presented bearing on the contribution of various vehicle types to urban air pollution (carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitric oxides) for cities of various sizes. The main share is supplied by spark-ignition trucks (more than 60%) and spark-ignition buses (about 15%); private cars account for only 5–6% of exhaust. In the U.S.S.R. efforts to reduce toxic exhaust from trucks by redistributing freight among trucks of varying carrying capacity and by shifting truck fuel to diesel and (in the cities) to natural gas are of great importance. It is projected that future developments in vehicular transport will reduce carbon monoxide exhaust by 2.5–3.0 times and hydrocarbons by 2.0–2.5 times, and that reductions will depend on city size.

Date: 1987
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(87)90061-2

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