Abstract
Abstract. Urban on-road vehicle emissions affect air quality and human health locally and globally. Given uneven sources, they typically exhibit distinct spatial heterogeneity, varying sharply over short distances (10 m–1 km). However, all-around observational constraints on the emission sources are limited in much of the world. Consequently, traditional emission inventories lack the spatial resolution that can characterize the on-road vehicle emission hotspots. Here we establish a bottom-up approach to reveal a unique pattern of urban on-road vehicle emissions at a spatial resolution 1–3 orders of magnitude higher than current emission inventories. We interconnect all-around traffic monitoring (including traffic fluxes, vehicle-specific categories, and speeds) via an intelligent transportation system (ITS) over Xiaoshan District in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region. This enables us to calculate single-vehicle-specific emissions over each fine-scale (10 m–1 km) road segment. Thus, the most hyperfine emission dataset of its type is achieved, and on-road emission hotspots appear. The resulting map shows that the hourly average on-road vehicle emissions of CO, NOx, HC, and PM2.5 are 74.01, 40.35, 8.13, and 1.68 kg, respectively. More importantly, widespread and persistent emission hotspots emerged. They are of significantly sharp small-scale variability, up to 8–15 times within individual hotspots, attributable to distinct traffic fluxes, road conditions, and vehicle categories. On this basis, we investigate the effectiveness of routine traffic control strategies on on-road vehicle emission mitigation. Our results have important implications for how the strategies should be designed and optimized. Integrating our traffic-monitoring-based approach with urban air quality measurements, we could address major data gaps between urban air pollutant emissions and concentrations.
Highlights
Urban air pollution is a critical risk for premature death globally (Lelieveld et al, 2015; West et al, 2006)
The budget assessment of on-road vehicle emissions is of great significance for air pollution control, epidemiology, exposure assessment, and environmental equity
The main concern is that the traffic states can vary sharply over short distances (10 m–1 km), in urban zones (Chen et al, 2020; Gately et al, 2017; Liu et al, 2019; Wu et al, 2020; Yu et al, 2020)
Summary
Urban air pollution is a critical risk for premature death globally (Lelieveld et al, 2015; West et al, 2006). The budget assessment of on-road vehicle emissions is of great significance for air pollution control, epidemiology, exposure assessment, and environmental equity L. Jiang et al.: Hyperfine-resolution mapping of on-road vehicle emissions berg et al, 2017). The gradients of on-road vehicle emissions are not well represented in routine emission inventories. The main concern is that the traffic states (e.g., traffic fluxes, road conditions, and vehicle categories) can vary sharply over short distances (10 m–1 km), in urban zones (Chen et al, 2020; Gately et al, 2017; Liu et al, 2019; Wu et al, 2020; Yu et al, 2020)
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