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Black carbon (BC; a good tracer of road traffic emissions) concentrations from personal monitoring of 46 school children showed the highest levels in comparison with the corresponding fixed stations in schools and in a reference urban background station. Commuting periods showed extreme concentration peaks and the concentration was 2.9 times higher than at home. Children spent only 5.6 % of their time on commuting but received 19.6 % of their daily dose. Moreover, they received 36.5 % of the dose at schools. Therefore, traffic density around schools and typical school commuting routes should be reduced.
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Rivas, I. et al. (2016). Black Carbon Exposure of Schoolchildren in Barcelona. In: Steyn, D., Chaumerliac, N. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIV. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24478-5_28
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