Modelling Of Carbon Monoxide Concentration From Motor Vehicles Travelling Near Roadway Intersections In Lagos, Nigeria
Price
Free (open access)
Transaction
Volume
4
Pages
8
Published
1994
Size
637 kb
Paper DOI
10.2495/AIR940182
Copyright
WIT Press
Author(s)
F.A. Akeredolu, A.F. Oluwole, E.A. Betiku & O.J. Ogunsola
Abstract
With a human population of over 5 million, traffic congestion is one of the perennial urban problems confronting Lagos City, Nigeria. Many decongestion approaches had been attempted including vehicle movement restriction using odd-even registration as criterion, construction of billion dollar ring-roads, traffic planning through the installation of traffic lights. In this study, the vehicular carbon monoxide emission at one of the city's traffic light-control road-way junctions is modelled and measured using an automated NDIR system. The traffic flow at the intersection was characterized. A PC-version of USEPA's C ALINE model implemented by Trinity Consultants CAL3QHC) was used in predicting the CO concentrations nea
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