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Rerouting urban construction transport flows to avoid air pollution hotspots
Dept. of Business Technology and Operations, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Elsene, Belgium.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4572-4080
Dept. of Business Technology and Operations, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Elsene, Belgium.
Dept. of Business Technology and Operations, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Elsene, Belgium.
2023 (English)In: Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, ISSN 1361-9209, E-ISSN 1879-2340, Vol. 119Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Currently, over 96% of the urban population is exposed to exceeding air pollution concentrations. Freight transport daily engenders €61,604 of air pollution health costs in the Brussels-Capital Region (BCR), of which 60% is incurred by vulnerable population segments. The construction sector is responsible for 26.40% of truck traffic in the BCR. This paper examines the exposure effects when off-site construction logistics flows are redirected around air pollution hotspots. Consequently, alternative routing scenarios are computed, and its emission dispersed assuming a Gaussian relation. Concentrations are then associated to spatiotemporal receptor densities. The health impact is monetized using hospital exposure-response functions. While overall emissions increase across all scenarios, health costs are mitigated up to 25.53% by rerouting existing flows. This study suggests to decouple policies from absolute transport emissions and focus on its health impact, considering spatiotemporal dynamics of both emissions and receptors.

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Elsevier , 2023. Vol. 119
Keywords [en]
Air pollution, Construction transport, Vehicle routing, Receptor hotspots, Impact assessment
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Transport Systems and Logistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-197674DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2023.103747OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-197674DiVA, id: diva2:1794743
Available from: 2023-09-06 Created: 2023-09-06 Last updated: 2023-11-08

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