PuSH - Publication Server of Helmholtz Zentrum München: Low emission zones reduced PM<sub>10</sub> but not NO<sub>2</sub> concentrations in Berlin and Munich, Germany.

Information

Clues to quality of journals

Open Access Policy of Helmholtz Association 2016

CC Licencences

Publication Metrics

Navigation

Home

Deutsch

Research

Advanced Search

Browse by ...

... HMGU-Authors/Consortia

... Organizational Structure

... Journal

... Publication Type

... Research Data

... Arbeitsgruppen

... Publication Year

Publication overview

Statistics

Statistics (last 5 years)

OA Publications

Publish

Submit Publication

Import publication from...

...EVA

Report missing publication

Highlights

Support & Contact

Contact persons

Help

Data protection

Helmholtz Open Science

JANE Journal Estimator

SHERPA/RoMEO

DOAJ

Export:

Text

Endnote (RIS) BIB

BibTeX

Gu, J. ; Deffner, V.* ; Küchenhoff, H.* ; Pickford, R. ; Breitner-Busch, S. ; Schneider, A.E. ; Kowalski, M. ; Peters, A. ; Lutz, M.* ; Kerschbaumer, A.* ; Slama, R.* ; Morelli, X.* ; Wichmann, H.-E. ; Cyrys, J.

Low emission zones reduced PM₁₀ but not NO₂ concentrations in Berlin and Munich, Germany.

J. Environ. Manage. 302:114048 (2022)

Postprint

DOI

PMC

	Open Access Green

Abstract
Metrics
Extra information

Low emission zones (LEZs) aiming at improving the air quality in urban areas have been implemented in many European cities. However, studies are limited in evaluating the effects of LEZ, and most of which used simple methods. In this study, a general additive mixed model was utilized to account for confounders in the atmosphere and validate the effects of LEZ on PM10 and NO2 concentrations in two German cities. In addition, the effects of LEZ on elemental carbon (EC) and total carbon (TC) in Berlin were also evaluated. The LEZ effects were estimated after taking into account air pollutant concentrations at a reference site located in the regional background, and adjusting for hour of the week, public holidays, season, and wind direction. The LEZ in Berlin, and the LEZ in combination with the heavy-duty vehicle (HDV) transit ban in Munich significantly reduced the PM10 concentrations, at both traffic sites (TS) and urban background sites (UB). The effects were greater in LEZ stage 3 than in LEZ stages 2 and 1. Moreover, compared with PM10, LEZ was more efficient in reducing EC, a component that is considered more toxic than PM10 mass. In contrast, the LEZ had no consistent effect on NO2 levels: no effects were observed in Berlin; in Munich, the combination of the LEZ and the HDV transit ban reduced NO2 at UB site in LEZ stage 1, but without further reductions in subsequent stages of the LEZ. Overall, our study indicated that LEZs, which target the major primary air pollution source in the highly populated city center could be an effective way to improve urban air quality such as PM mass concentration and EC level.

Impact Factor

Scopus SNIP

Scopus
Cited By

Altmetric

8.910

1.888

PuSH - Publication Server of Helmholtz Zentrum München

Low emission zones reduced PM10 but not NO2 concentrations in Berlin and Munich, Germany.

Low emission zones reduced PM₁₀ but not NO₂ concentrations in Berlin and Munich, Germany.