Highway and Urban Environment: Proceedings of the 9th Highway and Urban Environment symposium

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Planning for Sustainable Mobility with Personal Rapid Transit in Small European Cities....Pages 3-14
Financing Urban Transport Through Value Capture....Pages 15-21
Environmental Costs Account: A Base for Measuring Sustainability in Transport Plans....Pages 23-30
A GIS Raster Model for Assessing the Environmental Quality of Spain Focused on SEA and Infrastructure Planning Procedures (LATINO Model)....Pages 31-38
Sustainable Mobility in Metropolitan Areas....Pages 39-47
Bases for Building a Sustainability Indicator System for Transport....Pages 49-57
Front Matter....Pages 60-60
Biodiesel from Waste Olive Oil: Transesterification Kinetics, Exhaust Emissions and Fuel Consumption....Pages 61-69
Intake Fraction for Benzene Traffic Emissions in Helsinki....Pages 71-77
Modelling of Air Pollutants of Highway Roads in Hungary....Pages 79-86
Seasonal Trend of Water-Soluble Ions at One TSP and Five PM 2.5 Sampling Sites in Beijing, China....Pages 87-95
Utilization of Meandering in a Receptor-Oriented Solution of the Line Source Dispersion Equation....Pages 97-104
Measurements of Heavy Metals in Dry and Wet Deposition in São Paulo City....Pages 105-113
Exposure of Cyclists to Ultra Fine Particles....Pages 115-122
Air Pollution Exposure in an Unventilated Tunnel in Leeds, UK....Pages 123-131
Assessment of Aerosol Concentration Sampled at Five Sites in Beijing from 2005 Till 2007....Pages 133-140
Emissions Pollutant from Diesel, Biodiesel and Natural Gas Refuse Collection Vehicles in Urban Areas....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 150-150
Platinum-Group Element Distribution in Hathersage, a Small Town Near Sheffield, UK: Evidence for a Single Source from Catalytic Converters....Pages 151-160
Platinum and Lead in South African Road Dust....Pages 161-166
Front Matter....Pages 168-168
Reduction of Stormwater Runoff Toxicity by Wet Detention Ponds....Pages 169-176
Microbial Contaminants Removal in a Stormwater Pond....Pages 177-185
Front Matter....Pages 168-168
Reuse of Solid Waste from the Clearing of Road Basins and Ditches in Civil Engineering: Environmental Characterization, Ways of Treatment and Their Efficiency....Pages 187-195
Methodology Used for Comparing Two Locations for the New Lisbon Airport Based on the Impacts on Surface Water....Pages 197-205
Determination of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Surface Waters and Runoff....Pages 207-215
Use of Absorptive Media to Monitor Stormwater Contamination in Small Urban Drains....Pages 217-224
Effects of Atmospheric Salt Deposition on Highway Runoff Characteristics – A Pilot Case Study....Pages 225-233
Size Fractionation of Heavy Metals in Highway Runoff Waters....Pages 235-244
Ecotoxicological Impacts on Brown Trout ( Salmo trutta L.) Exposed to Runoff from a Four Lane Motorway in Norway....Pages 245-253
Potential of Road Surface for a Non-point Source of Pollutants – Result of Nationwide Survey in Japan....Pages 255-265
Trace Metals in Stockholm Sediments....Pages 267-273
Environmental Impacts of the A6 Highway in La Silva Stream in the Region of Bierzo. (Leon). Spain....Pages 275-283
Front Matter....Pages 286-286
Arsenic Contamination After Wood Impregnation: Speciation, Sorption and Leaching....Pages 287-297
Effect of Heavy Metal on Complex Permittivity Characteristics of Saturated Sand....Pages 299-305
Blast-Furnace Sludge as Sorbent Material for Multi-metal Contaminated Water....Pages 307-317
Evaluation of Zn, Cu and Pb Sorption-Desorption Phenomena in Kaolinite-Sand Media Filtration Pilot Scale Installation....Pages 319-327
Diagnosing the Impact of Traffic on Roadside Soils Through Chemometric Analysis on the Concentrations of More Than 60 Metals Measured by ICP/MS....Pages 329-336
Influence of De-Icing Salt on K Supply and Street Trees Ecological Status in Riga, Latvia....Pages 337-345
Heavy Metals Soil Pollution in Some Urban Location from Romania....Pages 347-355
Front Matter....Pages 358-358
Effects of Transport Infrastructure Plans on Climate Change. Application to the Spanish Strategic Transport and Infrastructure Plan 2005–2020 (PEIT)....Pages 359-365
Designing High Traffic Volume Urban Motorway Pavements to Maximize Sustainability....Pages 367-376
Fuel Tax Levels Necessary to Achieve the Agreed Reduction Targets of CO 2 Emissions. The Case of Madrid....Pages 377-385
Front Matter....Pages 358-358
Emission Inventory for the Road Transport Sector in the Urban Area of Naples: Methodology and Results....Pages 387-395
Transport Energy Use and Emission Trends in Spain....Pages 397-404
Back Matter....Pages 405-416