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Model for Predicting Roadside Concentrations of Traffic Pollutants

An analytical model is presented to estimate traffic pollutant concentrations based on an artificial neural network (ANN) approach. The model can analyze the highly nonlinear relationship between the traffic flow attributes, meteorological conditions, road spatial characteristics, and the traffic po...

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Published in:Tsinghua science and technology 2007-04, Vol.12 (2), p.178-183
Main Authors: Yang, Zhongzhen, Miao, Guoqiang, Wang, Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:An analytical model is presented to estimate traffic pollutant concentrations based on an artificial neural network (ANN) approach. The model can analyze the highly nonlinear relationship between the traffic flow attributes, meteorological conditions, road spatial characteristics, and the traffic pollutant concentrations. This study analyzes the multiple factors that affect the pollutant concentration and establishes the model structure using the ANN technique. Collected data for the pollutant concentrations as functions of variant factors was used to train the ANN model. A method was developed to automatically measure the traffic flow attributes, such as traffic flow, vehicle speed, and flow composition from video data. The results indicate that the model can reliably forecast CO 2 concentrations along the roads.
ISSN:1007-0214
1878-7606
1007-0214
DOI:10.1016/S1007-0214(07)70025-1