Pollution
Sustainable Living & City
Climate Change
Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Spain
2013.11.15
Synergistic Understanding of Best Ways to improve Air qualitY in underground rail transport systems (SUBWAY)
Barcelona is the focus of his project, where almost one-third of the working population commutes by subway each day. Through continuous monitoring of air pollution on platforms and in tunnels, he has been able to identify the contribution of different sources and recommend strategies to reduce it. Tunnel ventilation and station design are the two main factors affecting air quality in the Barcelona subway system, Dr. Amato has found. In stations where panels with doors separate the platform from the rails, he found that passengers were exposed to only half the amount of particle pollutants, compared to traditional, open designs. By providing such concrete advice to managers of urban transport systems, Dr. Amato’s work will help reduce the serious health risks of breathing polluted air for the many millions of passengers using subway systems around the world.
Something in the Air Down There
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Commuting by subway? What you need to know about air quality
In Europe alone, commuters in more than 60 cities use rail subways. Internationally, more than 120 million people commute by them every day. We count around 4.8 million riders per day in London, 5.3 million in Paris, 6.8 million in Tokyo, 9.7 million in Moscow and 10 million in Beijing. > Read the full article


Fulvio
AMATO
Institution
Spanish National Research Council
Natural Resources
Country
Spain
Nationality
Italian
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