PEDESTRIANISATION AS AN EFFECTIVE MEASURE TO CONTROL AIR POLLUTION TOWARD SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Hamideh Khodapanah Roudsari¹ Dr. Chandrashekara.B²

1) Research scholar at University Of Mysore India.
2) , Professor at University of Mysore, Dos in geography

Publication : 4th International Conference on Modern Research in Civil Engineering, Architectural & Urban Development (4cauconf.com)
Abstract :
The built environment and consequently vehicular transport has a significant impact on public health and environmental quality. Also vehicular transport as an impact of built environment is one of the most important source for environmental decay such as noise pollution in city centers. So, one of the transport schemes like pedestrianization can have a significant impact on environmental quality and improve noise pollution condition. This paper shows, to what extent the built environment and implementation of pedetrianization scheme has influence on reducing noise pollution level at Tehran’ city center. There is a direct interaction between man, human health, environment quality, sustainable development and pedestrianisation. The results of the survey suggest that the implementation of pedestrianisation in Tehran s city center has been very successful. As a result was founded an increase in walkability to be associated with an increase in time spent in physically active travel, fewer vehicle miles traveled, fewer grams of oxides of nitrogen (NOx) emitted, and fewer grams of volatile organic compounds (VOC) emitted.
Keywords : Sustainable development Air pollution Pedestrianisation Built environment.