Remote sensing was employed for the first time to measure nitrogen oxide (NO) levels of on-road light duty motor vehicles of the Metropolitan Area of Mexico City (MAMC). The sensor placed at twelve different sites also measured the concentration of CO2, CO, and total hydrocarbons (THC), in the exhaust emissions. A database was compiled containing 122,800 readings, of which 84, 650 (69 %) records were valid emissions measurements. CO, HC and NO valid readings were 68.9, 63.4 and 62.9 %, respectively, of the total attempted measurements. Furthermore, 42,822 vehicles were number-plate matched to model year with the information provided by the Inspection/Maintenance program. The mean emissions of total valid readings for CO, HC, and NO were determined to be 1.31 vol.%, 440 ppm (propane), and 914 ppm, respectively. In 1991 and 1994 remote sensing measurements of CO and HC tailpipe emissions were performed in the MAMC at five different locations (30,000 valid readings). Large drops in both pollutants were observed for the intervening years, but sufficient vehicle information was not available at that time to fully explain the observed trends. Compared with those reports, our results point out to a steady decrease in CO and HC exhaust emissions with vehicle model year. The fleet emissions measured exhibit a gamma distribution, with 10 % of the most polluting fleet being responsible for 45 %, 25 %, ans 29 % of the CO, HC, and NO emissions, respectively. NO emissions in taxis are the highest among the vintage of vehicles, a matter of concern since according to the distance traveled per year, they represent 22 % of the total activity in the MAMC.
Remote sensing evaluation of exhaust emissions from motor vehicles in the metropolitan area of Mexico City
2003
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Conference paper
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