Highway and Urban Environment, 2007 Proceedings of the 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries Series, Vol. 12

I. Vehicle Consumption and Emissions and Traffic Management: Engineering-economic simulations of sustainable transport policies, by T Zachariadis; Life cycle environmental benefits ofbiodiesel production and use in Spain, by C de la Ria, Y Lechón, H C’abal, C Lago, L Izquierdo, R Sáez; Engine management for Flex Fuel plus compressed natural gas vehicles, by O Volpato, F Theunissen, R Mazara, E Verhaeven; Mobility and environment in Spain, by P J Perez-Martinez; Influence of gear changing behaviour on fuel-use and vehicular exhaust emissions, by C Beckx, L Int Panis, I De Vlieger, G Wets; Effect of speed reduction on emissions of heavy duty lorries, by L Int Panis, I De Vlieger, L Pelkmans, L Schrooten; Gender-linked disparity in vehicle exhaust emissions? Results from an activity-based survey, by C Beckx, L Int Panis, M Vanhulsel, G Wets, R Torfs; Floating Automotive Data Collection (FADC), by A Schaerf, S Kumra, R Mazara, L Pelkmans, E Verhaeven; Reducing car trip and pollutant emissions through strategic transport planning in Madrid, Spain, by A Monzón, A M Pardeiro, L A Vega; Evaluation of car control measures based on an Internet-based travel survey system, by N Harata, S Aono; Integrating cycling in Bus Rapid Transit system in Accra, by M L Quarshie; II. Air Pollution and Air Quality: Evaluation ofhydrogen peroxide in rainwater in downtown São Paulo, by MA Santos, J J Pedrotti, A Fornaro; The comparison of pollutant concentrations in liquid falling and deposited precipitation, and throughfall, by J Fisak et al.; Wet deposition at Llandaff station in Cardiff, by E Abogrean, G Karani, J Collins, R Cook; Monitoring the atmospheric deposition of particulate-associated urban contaminants, Coventry, UK, by S M Charlesworth, C Booty, J Beasant; Size, morphological and chemical characterization of aerosols polluting the Beijing atmosphere in January/February 2005, by S Norra, B Hundt, D Stüben, K Cen, C Liu, V Dietze, E Schultz; Air pollution levelsin two São Paulo subway stations, by R K Fujii, P Oyola, J C R Pereira, A S Nedel, R C Cacavallo; Air quality nearby different typologies ofmotorways: Intercomparison and correlation, by C S Martins, F Ferreira; Assessment of air pollution in the vicinity of major alpine routes, by P Suppan, K Schafer, J Vergeiner, S Emeis, F Obleitner, E Griesser; The relative impact of automobile catalysts and Russian smelters on PGE deposition in Greenland, by S Rauch, J Knutsson; Cultural heritage stock at risk from air pollution, by J Watt et al; III. Contaminated Environments and Remediation: Organic Contaminants in Urban Sediments and Vertical Leaching in Road Ditches, by A-M Strömvali, M Norin, T J R Pettersson; The use of an epiphyte (Tillandsia usneoides L.) as bioindicator of heavy metal pollution in São Paulo, Brazil , by A M G Figueiredo et al.; On-line matrix separation for the determination of PGEs in sediments by ICP-MS, by A De Bonietal; Determination of PGE and REE in urban matrices and fingerprinting of traffic emission contamination, by M Angelone, F Spaziani, C Cremisini, A Saliuzzo; Sorption behaviour of Pt, Pd and Rh on different soil components: results of an experimental study, by J Dikikh, J-D Eckhardt, Z Berner, D Stüben; Reactive Soil Barriers for Removal of Chromium(VI) from Contaminated Soil, by A-M Strömvall, M Norin, Hlnanta; Cleaning of highway runoff using a reactive filter treatment plant — a pilot-scale column study, by G Renman, M Hallberg, J Kocyba; Heavy metal removal efficiency in a kaolinite-sand media filtration pilot scale installation, by P J Ramisio, J M P Vieira; IV. Stormwater: Site assessment of road-edge grassed channels for highway drainage, by M Escarameia, A J Todd; Evaluation of the runoff water quality from a tunnel wash, by A E Barbosa, J Saraiva, T Leitão; An investigation of urban water and sediment ecotoxicity in relation to metal concentrations, by L Scholes, R Mensah, D M Revitt, R H Jones;