Türkiye aims to develop real-time map of air pollution
Source: https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkiye-aims-to-develop-real-time-map-of-air-pollution/news
Author: Sabah
Türkiye will soon launch the development of a real-time map of air pollution caused by vehicle traffic to draw realistic data and calculate emissions. Yıldız Technical University, Environmental Engineering Department associate lecturer Levent Kuzu said: "Normally, air pollution estimations are made by generalization. In our method, there will be instantaneous, real data. We will try to make the most realistic estimation with the obtained data. Vehicles passing through the street will be classified one by one according to their types and traffic density." Explaining the details of the TÜBITAK-suppod project, Kuzu stated that the most important factor affecting air pollution in metropolitan cities are the fuels used in vehicles and for heating households, and those polluting gases and particles are released into the atmosphere depending on the content of the fuel. Emphasizing that there are pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide in gases that affect upper respiratory tract diseases, Kuzu underscored that there are critical values for these that should not be exceeded. "These vary daily or hourly depending on the type of pollutant. Our limit values are compatible with the European Union," he noted.