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: Received: 16 August 2024 / Approved: 16 August 2024 / Online: 16 August 2024 (12:03:07 CEST)
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Bañuelos-Gimeno, J.; Sobrino, N.; Arce-Ruiz, R. Initial Insights into Teleworking’s Effect on Air Quality in Madrid City. Preprints2024, 2024081234. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1234.v1
Bañuelos-Gimeno, J.; Sobrino, N.; Arce-Ruiz, R. Initial Insights into Teleworking’s Effect on Air Quality in Madrid City. Preprints 2024, 2024081234. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1234.v1
Bañuelos-Gimeno, J.; Sobrino, N.; Arce-Ruiz, R. Initial Insights into Teleworking’s Effect on Air Quality in Madrid City. Preprints2024, 2024081234. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1234.v1
APA Style
Bañuelos-Gimeno, J., Sobrino, N., & Arce-Ruiz, R. (2024). Initial Insights into Teleworking’s Effect on Air Quality in Madrid City. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1234.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Bañuelos-Gimeno, J., Natalia Sobrino and Rosa Arce-Ruiz. 2024 "Initial Insights into Teleworking’s Effect on Air Quality in Madrid City" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202408.1234.v1
Abstract
Commuting to work by private vehicle is one of the main sources of air pollution in cities, mainly from NO2 and particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10). With the spread of telework, traffic congestion during peak hours is reduced on certain days of the week, improving air quality. This study an-alyzes the relationship between the improvement of air quality improvement and urban traffic resulting from teleworking activities after the COVID-19 pandemic in Madrid, Spain. The article considers road traffic and teleworking before the COVID-19 pandemic (2018 and 2019), during the pandemic (2020 and 2021) and in the period after (2022 and 2023) in the city center and the in-fluence on certain environmental factors. Daily NO2, PM2.5, PM10, and O3 concentration data were collected at air quality stations in Madrid municipality, traffic data and some meteorological variables such as wind speed, precipitation and temperature were considered. When conducting correlation and regression analysis among the variables it shows a clear association between NO2 and traffic before the pandemic, which is lower for both PM and O3. This correlation was main-tained during the pandemic, except for O3, whose association increased during this period and then decreased in the later period due to various motives. These results seem to indicate the ex-istence of a relevant relationship between urban mobility and air quality and an especially rele-vant relationship with telework, suggesting the need for policies aimed at promoting sustainable mobility in the future.
Keywords
Air Quality; Telework; Urban Mobility; COVID-19 Pandemic
Subject
Engineering, Transportation Science and Technology
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