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In the past few decades, air pollution in many European cities has changed in character. Improved technology, higher stacks and legislation limiting the sulphur contents in fuels have resulted in a marked reduction in the pollution levels of SO2. On the other hand, due to the steady growth of road traffic, the pollution from traffic has increased substantially during the same period. In Western European countries the importance of air pollution from sulphur dioxide is diminishing. This is not the case in some Southern and Eastern European cities. Of growing importance in all European cities is the air pollution from traffic. Thus, studies of emissions, dispersion and chemical transformations of traffic air pollution in urban areas are becoming of increasing interest. This is felt both at European and national levels (i.e. COST Action 615 “CITAIR” on “Database, monitoring networks and modelling of urban air pollution”)
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Palmgren, F. (1996). Design and planning of field campaigns. In: Allegrini, I., De Santis, F. (eds) Urban Air Pollution. NATO ASI Series, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-61120-9_6
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