Impact of Traffic on Carbon Monoxide Concentr...

Impact of Traffic on Carbon Monoxide Concentration Near Urban Area Road Mid-Block

Author Name : Nitin Sharma, Ram Rajkumar Lalmani, Waquar Ahmad Siddiqui, Azeezurrahman Ansari

​ABSTRACT

Traffic emits a lot of vehicular exhaust that has a number of gases included into it, gases like CO2 (carbon dioxide), SO2 (sulphur dioxide), NO2 (nitrogen dioxide) and CO (Carbon Monoxide) are emitted through the vehicles causing many health related issues and creating air pollution also the emission of these gases causes a acid rain which gradually effects over the environment , all among the gases CO is considered as most deadly because its emission not only causes health related but also causes death due to its toxic free radical mechanism, CO is emitted due to the incomplete combustion of fuel, and mostly this gas comes out as a result of high traffic volume or in the peak hours of traffic when there is a lot of congestion throughout the traffic, due to which CO has increased causing death at a large scale. Traffic generates a maximum proportion of CO from its vehicular exhaust so as to calculate the amount of CO exerted out from the vehicle there is a performance of Traffic volume Survey following by Greenshield’s model that inherits the use of relationship between average speed, acceleration and exhaust emission factor.

Keywords: - Carbon Monoxide, Peak Hours, Traffic Density, Adsorption