Towards a comprehensive model of the impact of vehicle traffic on air pollution and the environment
The societal impact of road traffic is huge and multifaceted, including economic, social, health and environmental aspects. On the other side, emerging technologies, such as intelligent infrastructures, connected vehicles and automated driving, promise to revolutionize the near, mid and long term future of road traffic and transportation in general. This project aims at developing a comprehensive tool to address quantitatively the evaluation of these technologies in different scenarios.
The claim would be to design a tool that links traffic models to the diffusion of gases in the atmosphere, combining consecutive modules: a traffic simulation module, an emission module, a module for the main chemical reactions leading to particular gases production, and a module for their diffusion in the atmosphere. Last but not least, a module to study the impact on the environment. This project is still in its infancy, the first results concern the traffic module, based on second-order traffic flow models, and its linkage to the second and third modules of emissions and chemical reaction systems respectively:
- Balzotti C., Briani M., Piccoli B. (2023). Estimate of emissions on road networks via Generic Second Order Models. NETWORKS AND HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA, ISSN: 1556-1801, doi: 10.3934/nhm.2023030
- Balzotti C., Briani M., De Filippo B., Piccoli B. (2022). A computational modular approach to evaluate NOx emissions and ozone production due to vehicular traffic. DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS. SERIES B., ISSN: 1531-3492, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2021192
- Balzotti C., Briani M. (2022). Estimate of traffic emissions through multiscale second order models with heterogeneous data. NETWORKS AND HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA, ISSN: 1556-1801, doi: 10.3934/nhm.2022030
