Author(s)

D.E. Conlan, A. Crumble, D.W. Rapei and B. Owen

Abstract

In the United Kingdom local authorities have been placed with a duty to review air quality on a regular basis from April 1997. Where national air quality standards are predicted not to be met by the year 2005 there will be a need to designate these ' hot spot' areas as Air Quality Management Areas. This paper presents a case study based in an urban area in north west England which identifies the most likely areas to be classified as "hot spots'. Initial emission estimates have been made for this area bot

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