Comprehensive approach to national tire wear emissions: Challenges and implications
The use of vehicle tires has been identified as a major source of microplastics in the environment and an increasing source of urban particulate air pollution. In light of increasing traffic volumes, increasingly heavier and more powerful vehicles due to trends and electrification, and the lack of tire wear regulation, methods to estimate and monitor changes in national emissions are needed as input for environmental impact assessments. Emission estimations of tire wear are made either based on the mileage approach or the sales approach. This study aims to investigate if and how the mileage approach can be improved by using emission factors for passenger cars and LDVs based on the authors' own measurements and emission factors from the literature for HDVs and buses. An approach with emission factor adjustments based on weight and number of tires in combination with highly detailed mileage data has been evaluated. Sales approach calculations have been used to validate the method. A secondary aim was to use the new mileage approach framework to calculate the national tire wear emissions for Sweden. These calculations resulted in slightly lower total emissions than previous estimations provide, but with higher emissions for passenger cars and light-duty vehicles, and lower emissions for heavy-duty vehicles and motorcycles. Passenger cars constitute more than half of the total emissions. It is concluded that even though the framework offers greater detail, thus increasing the possibilities to adjust for changes in emission factors and mileages in specific vehicle categories, the challenges posed by such factors as the lack of measured emission factors for heavy-duty vehicles and uncertainties regarding the quality of mileage statistics makes the estimations uncertain. Important future suggestions for research include establishing reliable emission factors, especially for heavy-duty vehicles, and initiating research to better understand how climate, road networks, surface properties, and vehicle fleet characteristics affect emission factors.
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- © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
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Authors:
- Polukarova, Maria
- Hjort, Mattias
- Gustafsson, Mats
- Publication Date: 2024-5-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 171391
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Serial:
- Science of the Total Environment
- Volume: 924
- Issue Number: 0
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISSN: 0048-9697
- Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00489697
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air pollution sources; Automobiles; Particulates; Plastics; Tires; Wear
- Identifier Terms: Emission Factors (EMFAC)
- Geographic Terms: Sweden
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Vehicles and Equipment;
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- Accession Number: 01915782
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Apr 18 2024 5:22PM