Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries) (Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries)

The 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (8HUES) was held on 12–14 June 2006 in Nicosia, Cyprus. 8HUES was hosted in Cyprus by the Cyprus Institute. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS). The following facts provide a background for 8HUES: • 150 abstracts for posters and papers were accepted • 80 delegates (24 female) attended the symposium • 23 countries were represented, including all continents • 71 oral presentations at the symposium • 20 poster presentations • 50 written manuscripts for these proceedings HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s. The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway pollution. These challenges particularly - cluded urban photochemical smog, with an emphasis on ozone formation and particle release. The first symposium was titled “Highway Pollution” and had a clear aim to make a difference. The proceedings were published in an interdisciplinary journal. Front Matter....Pages i-xxv Front Matter....Pages 2-2 Engineering–economic simulations of sustainable transport policies....Pages 3-12 Life cycle environmental benefits of biodiesel production and use in Spain....Pages 13-22 Engine management for Flex Fuel plus compressed natural gas vehicles....Pages 23-33 Mobility and Environment in Spain....Pages 35-43 Influence of gear-changing behaviour on fuel use and vehicular exhaust emissions....Pages 45-51 Effect of speed reduction on emissions of heavy duty lorries....Pages 53-61 Gender-linked disparity in vehicle exhaust emissions? Results from an activity-based survey....Pages 63-70 Floating Automotive Data Collection....Pages 71-80 Reducing car trip and pollutant emissions through strategic transport planning in Madrid, Spain....Pages 81-90 Evaluation of car control measures based on an Internet-based travel survey system....Pages 91-101 Integrating cycling in Bus Rapid Transit system in Accra....Pages 103-116 Front Matter....Pages 118-118 Evaluation of hydrogen peroxide in rainwater in downtown São Paulo....Pages 119-128 The comparison of pollutant concentrations in liquid falling and deposited precipitation, and throughfall....Pages 129-142 Wet deposition at Llandaff station in Cardiff....Pages 143-153 Monitoring the atmospheric deposition of particulate-associated urban contaminants, Coventry, UK....Pages 155-165 Size, morphological and chemical characterization of aerosols polluting the Beijing atmosphere in January/February 2005....Pages 167-180 Air pollution levels in two São Paulo subway stations....Pages 181-190 Air quality nearby different typologies of motorways: Intercomparison and correlation....Pages 191-201 Assessment of air pollution in the vicinity of major alpine routes....Pages 203-214 The relative impact of automobile catalysts and Russian smelters on PGE deposition in Greenland....Pages 215-222 Front Matter....Pages 118-118 Cultural heritage stock at risk from air pollution....Pages 223-232 Front Matter....Pages 234-234 Organic contaminants in urban sediments and vertical leaching in road ditches....Pages 235-247 The use of an epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides L.) as bioindicator of heavy metal pollution in São Pauo, Brazil....Pages 249-257 On-line matrix separation for the determination of PGEs in sediments by ICP-MS....Pages 259-269 Determination of PGE and REE in urban matrices and fingerprinting of traffic emission contamination....Pages 271-281 Sorption behaviour of Pt, Pd, and Rh on different soil components: results of an experimental study....Pages 283-294 Reactive soil barriers for removal of chromium(VI) from contaminated soil....Pages 295-308 Cleaning of highway runoff using a reactive filter treatment plant – a pilot-scale column study....Pages 309-317 Heavy metal removal efficiency in a kaolinite–sand media filtration pilot-scale installation....Pages 319-329 Front Matter....Pages 332-332 Site assessment of road-edge grassed channels for highway drainage....Pages 333-343 Evaluation of the runoff water quality from a tunnel wash....Pages 345-358 An investigation of urban water and sediment ecotoxicity in relation to metal concentrations....Pages 359-370 Establishing a procedure to predict highway runoff quality in Portugal....Pages 371-383 A field microcosm method to determine the impact of sediments and soils contaminated by road runoff on indigenous aquatic macroinvertebrates....Pages 385-398 Assessment of storm water ecotoxicity using a battery of biotests....Pages 399-410 Is catchment imperviousness a good indicator of ecosystem health?....Pages 411-425 Front Matter....Pages 428-428 Evolution on pollutant removal efficiency in storm water ponds due to changes in pond morphology....Pages 429-439 Characterization of road runoff and innovative treatment technologies....Pages 441-452 Development and full-scale implementation of a new treatment scheme for road runoff....Pages 453-463 Reactive filters for removal of dissolved metals in highway runoff....Pages 465-474 Front Matter....Pages 428-428 Designing filters for copper removal for the secondary treatment of storm water....Pages 475-485 Modelling the oxygen mass balance of wet detention ponds receiving highway runoff....Pages 487-497 Monitoring and modelling the performance of a wet pond for treatment of highway runoff in cold climates....Pages 499-509 Can we close the long-term mass balance equation for pollutants in highway ponds?....Pages 511-520 Front Matter....Pages 522-522 Cardiovascular and respiratory variability related to air pollution and meteorological variables in Oporto, Portugal – preliminary study....Pages 523-534 Component analysis on respiratory disease variability at São Paulo....Pages 535-542 Management and optimization of environmental information using integrated technology: a case study in the city of São Paulo, Brazil....Pages 543-549 Using Bayesian inference to manage uncertainty in probabilistic risk assessments in urban environments....Pages 551-557 An assessment framework for urban water systems – a new approach combining environmental systems with service supply and consumer perspectives....Pages 559-577 Large area noise evaluation....Pages 579-589 Back Matter....Pages 590-590 Today, half of the world??'s population lives in urban areas and rapid urbanisation is expected to continue in the next decades. The growth of urban areas around the world presents many challenges and needs to be supported by the development of adequate and sustainable infrastructures. The Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (Nicosia, Cyprus, June 11-14, 2006) is a forum for recent research on all aspects of the highway and urban environment and focuses especially on the management and environmental impact of transportation. The Proceedings describe recent research on vehicle emissions, ai