AIR POLLUTION LEVELS AT HOTSPOT AREAS OF SELECTED EUROPEAN CITIES

INTRODUCTION In the development of the EU air quality legislation prior to the Clean Air for Europe programme (CAFE), as well as in projections of air quality across Europe accounting for existing and new policies and measures (EEA and DGEnv work), Integrated Assessment modelling was carried out with the RAINS model and focused on the analysis of regional scale concentrations in Europe. However, ambient concentrations of certain air pollutants show strong variability at a much finer scale (e.g. urban and local scale). Measurements at traffic stations located in streets across Europe show that air quality close to areas with increased traffic is of particular concern. Moreover, evidence of the adverse health effects of fine particulate matter is continuously emerging and the fact that most of the traffic related emissions are in the fine particulates range (更多