Exposure to Air Pollution: An Intake Fraction Application in Turin Province

ABSTRACT

An application of the intake fraction methodology was carried out in the southwestern area of the city of Turin, Italy, one of Europe's more polluted areas. The results from the case study were compared to similar analysis published in the literature and the intake Fraction (iF) formulation was critically revised and evaluated. These findings imply that there is potential for improving the evaluation of exposure to transport-related air pollution based on the use of the iF.

KEYWORDS:

• air pollution
• atmospheric dispersion modeling
• CO
• Exposure Assessment
• intake fraction
• NO₂

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Hakkan Lai and AJ Hedley for their remarks on a previous version of this article. They also thank Julian Marshall for sharing comments and ideas. The authors are grateful to Dinesh Sethi for his advice on this article.

Notes

¹Modelled monthly mean data.

²Monitored monthly mean data.

¹Municipalities;

²Population;

³Intake Fraction compartment model;

⁴Intake Fraction approximately;

⁵Intake Fraction box model for CO;

⁶Intake Fraction box model for NO₂.