Reduction of transport-related air pollution. A case study based on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of NOx emissions in the city of Krakow-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Reduction of transport-related air pollution. A case study based on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of NOx emissions in the city of Krakow

Published:2021-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:11 Page:790-796
ISSN:2391-5439
Container-title:Open Engineering
language:en
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Author:

Mikulski Maciej¹,Droździel Paweł²,Tarkowski Sławomir³

Affiliation:

1. Krakow Public Transport Authority , Krakow , Poland

2. Department of Sustainable Transport and Powertrains, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology , Lublin , Poland

3. Department of Automotive Vehicles, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Lublin University of Technology , Lublin , Poland

Abstract

Abstract This article describes the impact of limiting human mobility related to the COVID-19 pandemic on the level of air pollution related to transport. The city of Krakow and the emission level of nitrogen oxides (NOx) were used as a case study. This article describes the air quality monitoring system in Krakow and the measurement results from the measurement station at Krasinskiego Avenue. The average values of the pollution level in April 2018–2020 were compared. For the selected range of data, a significance test was performed, which resulted in no grounds for rejecting the hypothesis of the equality of the mean levels of nitrogen oxides concentrations in the spring. The analysis takes into account the average monthly temperatures in the discussed years.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Mechanical Engineering,Aerospace Engineering,General Materials Science,Civil and Structural Engineering,Environmental Engineering

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2021-0077/pdf

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