Construction schedule, an influential factor on air pollution in urban infrastructure projects
(2020) In Journal of Cleaner Production 255.- Abstract
Urbanization growth and aging infrastructures necessitate new infrastructure construction projects in congested urban areas. Urban construction projects interrupt the regular on-road vehicle traffic flow that affects air pollution concentration in the adjacent areas. The project schedule, however, is a possible contributor to the air pollution which has been neglected to date. This research proposes a new framework to account for the impact of different urban project schedule alternatives on air pollution emission near the construction zones. The proposed framework uses the capabilities of vehicle traffic simulation to evaluate air pollution emission of different construction schedule alternatives and reduce the resulting emission in... (More)
Urbanization growth and aging infrastructures necessitate new infrastructure construction projects in congested urban areas. Urban construction projects interrupt the regular on-road vehicle traffic flow that affects air pollution concentration in the adjacent areas. The project schedule, however, is a possible contributor to the air pollution which has been neglected to date. This research proposes a new framework to account for the impact of different urban project schedule alternatives on air pollution emission near the construction zones. The proposed framework uses the capabilities of vehicle traffic simulation to evaluate air pollution emission of different construction schedule alternatives and reduce the resulting emission in urban construction projects. The capability of the proposed framework is verified in a real grade separation case. Pollution concentration shows a potential reduction of up to 41% in sensitive locations. The achieved resulting values represent potential emission reduction of 7.8% for CO2, 8.2% for NOx, and 3.8% for PM10. The achieved results in the case study confirm the impact of the construction schedule on the air pollution emission throughout the project's construction. It justifies the application of the framework in the congested urban areas. The proposed framework in the research contributes to the sustainable improvement of urban infrastructure projects.
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- author
- Alvanchi, Amin ; Rahimi, Mostafa LU ; Mousavi, Milad and Alikhani, Hamed
- publishing date
- 2020-05-10
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Air pollution, Construction management, Construction schedule, Simulation, Traffic congestion, Urban infrastructure
- in
- Journal of Cleaner Production
- volume
- 255
- article number
- 120222
- publisher
- Elsevier
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85078452249
- ISSN
- 0959-6526
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120222
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- no
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Elsevier Ltd
- id
- 0993cf79-08cb-48ae-87d7-0bab614e6352
- date added to LUP
- 2022-04-21 16:17:42
- date last changed
- 2022-04-22 08:51:29
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title = {{Construction schedule, an influential factor on air pollution in urban infrastructure projects}},
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