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The impacts of inter-vehicle spacing on in-vehicle air pollution concentrations in idling urban traffic conditions
Authors:A McNabola  BM Broderick  LW Gill
Institution:aDepartment of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Abstract:The influence of inter-vehicle spacing on the in-vehicle air pollution exposure of car commuters in heavy traffic conditions was investigated, both experimentally and numerically. An experimental investigation was carried out into the effect, on in-vehicle air pollution exposure, of maintaining a distance of approximately 2 m to the preceding vehicle in congested idling traffic conditions compared to that of an identical vehicle maintaining a distance of approximately 1 m. In-vehicle VOC and PM2.5 concentrations revealed that a 19–31% reduction in exposure at the larger inter-vehicle spacing. A computational fluid dynamics model was calibrated using the experimental data and used to prediction car exposure under different conditions by varying certain key parameters. Agreement between the experimental and predicted data of 82% was achieved. The results show a significant drop in pollutant concentrations occurred within the first 2 m of their emission from the preceding vehicles exhaust.
Keywords:Air pollution  Personal exposure  Car commuters  Exhaust plume  Idle time
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