A study has been carried out to evaluate the air quality impact under different typologies of motorways in Portugal. The monitoring of atmospheric pollutants with the use of indicative and continuous simultaneous measurement methods was the strategy to evaluate the conformity with National/ European air quality legislation. This paper gathers results obtained in two major air quality-monitoring campaigns. Meteorological and traffic data were also collected. Benzene showed a decreasing linear dispersion behaviour for all the considered motorways and seems to be the best descriptor to evaluate the impact on air pollution through indicative measurements.
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Martins, C.S., Ferreira, E. (2007). Air quality nearby different typologies of motorways: Intercomparison and correlation. In: Morrison, G.M., Rauch, S. (eds) Highway and Urban Environment. Alliance For Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6010-6_18
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