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Urban air quality is a major topic in the European environmental policy because more than 70 % of the European inhabitants and a major part of the working places are located inside an urbanized area. This leads to increased levels of human exposure to harmful air pollutants such as ground-level ozone, nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic components and fine particles. In particular, the road traffic emitted BTEX-aromatics (Benzene-Toluene-Ethylbenzene and Xylene) are characteristic for local urban air pollution. Moreover, benzene is highly carcinogenic and therefore an annual averaged limit value of 5 μg m-3 has been set in the framework of the Air Quality Framework Directives 96/62/EC and 2000/69/EC (WHO, 2000). This limit value should be obtained in 2010. Traffic related benzene concentrations are controlled by the petrol composition, the car park composition and traffic speed as well as the atmospheric conditions.
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Lefebre, F. et al. (2004). Evaluation of Aurora Simulated Benzene Concentrations for the Urban Area of Antwerp. In: Borrego, C., Incecik, S. (eds) Air Pollution Modeling and Its Application XVI. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8867-6_47
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