Health Impact Assessment of a Predicted Air Quality Change by Moving Traffic from an Urban Ring Road into a Tunnel. The Case of Antwerp, Belgium.

BACKGROUND:The Antwerp ring road has a traffic density of 300,000 vehicles per day and borders the city center. The 'Ringland project' aims to change the current 'open air ring road' into a 'filtered tunneled ring road', putting the entire urban ring road into a tunnel...

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Main Authors: Daan Van Brusselen, Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, Bino Maiheu, Stijn Vranckx, Wouter Lefebvre, Stijn Janssen, Tim S Nawrot, Ben Nemery, Dirk Avonts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4863966?pdf=render