Tang U Wa, PhD student of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology (FST), University of Macau, has won the “Outstanding Student Paper Award of 2007” in the 12th International Conference of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies (HKSTS).
In the past 12 years, the HKSTS annual conference has grown in size and scope to become one of the leading regional conferences in transportation and logistics. The conference in 2007 attracted the participation of over 130 transportation and logistics researchers and practitioners from 26 countries and regions all over the world. The paper presented by Tang, titled “A Model System to Determine Traffic-Induced Air Pollution in Highly Compact Urban Forms”, was selected as one of the two best papers by the committee members.
The complex traffic emissions and street configurations in the highly compact Macao Peninsula are taken into account by the model system discussed in the paper. This system can simulate the traffic-induced air and noise pollutions in front of more than 1000 buildings in a few minutes. It is hence particularly useful for environmental assessments in urban and transport planning in Macao.
With this model system, a preliminary study was conducted to investigate the ways the four historic or modern urban forms existing nowadays on the Macao Peninsula have influenced vehicle transport and street environment.
In addition, considering the lack of vehicle emission data for air quality modelling in Macao, an innovated vehicle-following measurement technique was applied in this study. Compared with the traditional laboratory tests, the vehicle-following measurement technique can obtain a wide variety of vehicle emission data on the road as cooperation from the vehicle’s owners is no longer necessary.
The paper summarized the results of Tang’s PhD research supervised by Prof. Wang Zhishi.
Caption: Tang U Wa (left) and his supervisor Prof. Wang Zhishi
