Publics’ attitude on air pollution in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
The present work investigates the major environmental problem of air pollution that more or less occurs in the cities, based on publics’ perception. A case study was carried out in the city of Thessaloniki, Greece, in order to present and evaluate the publics’ attitude on air pollution levels in the city.
Intra-hourly variations of CO concentrations in Thessaloniki during the rush hours© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
Large urban conurbations are suffered from huge traffic due to extensive use of private cars that degrade the quality of life (air pollution, exposure to dangerous pollutant concentrations of both carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic substances, noise pollution, lost traveling time in the cars due to traffic congestion and a consequent number of health problems such as backbone and back affections, nervous breakdown, blood pressure increase, etc.). Congested roads are significant sources of air pollutants.
Life Cycle costing of a new transportation pavement constructed in the Paphos District area in Cyprus as a pilot study of the ‘ECOLANES’ project © Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
This paper describes briefly the methodology adopted for carrying out life cycle costing and environmental impact and energy consumption for different transportation pavements used and proposed in the ‘Ecolanes’ project. EcoLanes is an FP6 STREP project, funded under the priority thematic area of Sustainable Surface Transport, FP6-2005-Transport-4 call 3B. The project develops infrastructure for surface transport using slip forming and roller compaction techniques based on existing asphalt laying equipment and steel fibre reinforced concrete.
Sustainable mobility and transport modeling: the case of the city of Giannitsa© Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (6/2009)
Within the framework of this paper, the traffic, environmental and energy impact of transport demand management (TDM) strategies introduced in urban central areas in order to promote sustainable mobility is examined and evaluated through the use of traffic simulation modeling techniques.