VEHICLE EXHAUSTS AND FOREST DAMAGES

BILAVGASER OCH SKOGSDOEDEN

The aim of the research carried out at the Chalmers University of Technology is to highlight the consequences of technical development. This hearing deals with damages to forests caused by vehicle exhaust fumes. An estimation shows that 30-70% of the damages are caused by vehicle exhausts. This depends on the fact that vehicles emit a dominating part of nitric oxides and hydrocarbons. These are converted into ozone and other substances in the atmosphere and are probably causing the severest damages to forests. There are thus several indications that the problem is not primarily caused by environmental acidity.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

  Institute of Transportation, Fack
  S-402 20 Goeteborg 5,   Sweden 
• Publication Date: 1984

Language

• Swedish

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 109 p.
• Serial:
  • Rapport / Trafikplanering, Arkitektur, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola - TACTH
  • Publisher: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
  • ISSN: 0349-2389

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Environment; Environmental impacts; Exhaust gases; Forests; Hydrocarbons; Loss and damage; Nitric oxide; Ozone; Trees
• ITRD Terms: 1394: Catalytic converter; 1614: Damage; 2442: Emission; 2455: Environment; 2488: Vegetation
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00452866
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute (VTI)
• Report/Paper Numbers: 4 Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 31 1987 12:00AM