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Preliminary analysis of effects of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympic Games on air quality.
- Source :
- PLoS ONE; 10/18/2018, Vol. 13 Issue 10, p1-19, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper presents preliminary results about Turin’s air quality before, during and after the realization of the infrastructure projects for the Turin 2006 XX Winter Olympic Games. We compared the 3-year in-operam (work in progress) period (i.e. 2003–2005, when all infrastructures needed for the organization were built) with the periods before (ante-operam) and after (post-operam): 2000–2002 and 2006–2008, respectively. In particular, we analyzed the concentrations of the primary pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter, PM<subscript>10</subscript>) in Turin and Milan. In this way, we could use the measurements from Milan as a control dataset for comparison with the atmospheric pollution conditions in Turin. We found that infrastructural work for the Olympic Games in Turin affected NO<subscript>2</subscript> and PM<subscript>10</subscript> atmospheric concentrations, determining a peak in the average values during the in-operam period (probably due to caterpillar tractor emissions and excavation). This pattern did not emerge from the Milan data, where a decreasing trend can be seen between the ante-operam and the post-operam periods. On the other hand, a negative effect on CO levels was not observed: the decreasing trend, more evident in Turin compared to Milan, can be linked to the expansion during the same period of limited traffic areas created to facilitate the infrastructural work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- OLYMPIC Winter Games
AIR quality
PARTICULATE matter
INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics)
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132502556
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0205975