Vehicular air pollution based on traffic density - A case study

Air pollution problems are the top environmental problems persisting. The urban transportation has drastically improved over the recent years contributing to more vehicular growth. Vehicular congestion and traffic has paved ways to increase in vehicular air pollution. This paper analyses the traffic volume data at three places in Chennai. From the study, comparing with the three locations, based on the vehicle count, among all other vehicles, motorcycles are the highest in count. The air pollutants carry significant risks for the people who live in the particular surroundings. This could be an evident that CO2 and Particulate matter are high in the cases of motor cycles when compared to the passenger cars. The centralizations of toxins near streets are all around connected to transportation, so these markers can be utilized as a pointer of density of residents and also they signify as the metropolitan toxic wastes which pollute the surroundings.