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This article studies the influence of building street geometry, wind direction, daily car traffic and pedestrian trajectories in short-term personal exposure to PM10 on a street canyon in Barreiro City, Portugal. An automatic system for the analysis of traffic profiles, a Gaussian model for the determination of traffic emissions (ADMS-Urban) and a computational fluid dynamics model (ANSYS Fluent) to simulate the dispersion of pollutants inside a street canyon were used. Buildings height, width, length and geometry, as well as the distance between the buildings and road width were tested. Besides the real actual geometry of the street, with the real disposition and volumetric configuration of buildings, three scenarios were evaluated: (i) gaps of 4 m between the buildings along the street; (ii) gaps of 6 m between the buildings along the street and (iii) same height and width for all buildings along the street without gap between buildings. Wind direction, wind velocity and four pedestrian trajectories were considered. The results show that PM10 concentration, at 1.5-m high plane, is highly depen-dent on street geometry and wind conditions for along-canyon wind directions (west and east wind). Lower concentration levels are obtained for configuration (iii) because this geometry promotes the dispersion of pol-lutants under along-canyon wind direction. For cross-canyon wind directions (north and south), configuration
(i) results in lower PM10 concentrations. There are no visible improvements in having higher gaps between buildings (configuration ii). Short-term pedestrian personal exposure is dependent on the pedestrian trajectory considered inside the canyon. Pedestrian trajectories that correspond to crossing the road in the centre of the street result in the highest values.
Air quality, PM10, short-term personal exposure, street canyon, urban planning
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