KATOA: Dust nuisances from streets and roads: Monitoring, Management and evaluation of the effectiveness of road dust emission reduction measures Objectives: Continue research on sour...

The formation as well as the mitigation measures of street dust have been extensively studied in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area for several years. However, the results and lessons learned from these ...

Picture: Roosa Ritola Street dust contributes significantly to coarse fraction of ambient PM 10 and thus has a negative effect on air quality in Finnish cities especially during spring m...

KALPA-3 Road Dust Sources, Emission Reduction Measures and Air Quality Impacts- Research Project Road dust emissions, sources, their effect on the air quality as well as mitigation measu...

NORDUST-2 (Nordic road dust research project) NorDust II is a common Nordic road dust research project gathering world leading Nordic competence in the research area to improve the unders...

Most important peer-reviewed publications Stojiljkovic, A., Kauhaniemi, M., Kukkonen, J., Kupiainen, K., Karppinen, A., Denby, B.R., Kousa, A., Niemi, J.V., Ketzel M. 2019. The...

Ongoing research projects NORDUST-2  - Nordic road dust research project. Development of emission modelling and optimization of abatement measures by improved emission mode...

Picture: Roosa Ritola   Street dust refers to particles generated by vehicle induced wear (road, tyre and brake wear) and dust accumulated on the road surface from other s...

Picture: Roosa Ritola WDS SYKE owns and operates a measuring device developed at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute VTI (VTI, Statens väg- och transportfors...

Basic information The project is funded by European Union within the ENPI Annual Action Programme 2012 with a budget of 1.4 million EUR. The project is implemented by the consortium of EU Member...

Research engineer Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel. +358 295 251 498 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions Air pollut......

Picture: Tero Pajukallio Air pollution has severe negative impacts on human health and environment. Monetary value of these negative impacts for people and society can be assessed with va...

Senior research scientist D.Sc. (Tech.) Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.  +358 295 251 595 Finnish Environment Institute......

Senior scientist, group manager Contact information Email: firstname.lastname@syke.fi Tel.  +358 295 251 264 Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) Climate solutions ......

SYKE experts have taken part in compiling the new UNECE report on transboundary air pollution. Emissions have declined in Europe and North America, thanks to effective pollution measures. In Europe av......

Picture: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) evaluates air pollution emissions and their impacts on the climate, environment and human health. The evaluations are ...

Photo: Olli-Pekka Pietiläinen Fine particles in ambient air are considered to be the worst air pollution for human health. Significant health effects are observed already at relatively ...

In Finland, PM air pollution has been confirmed as the most important source of environmental burden of disease (EBD). The mainstream international evaluations regarding the effects of air pollution h...

The impacts from air pollution are not equally distributed, but depend on socio-demograhic and socio-economic factors, including age, gender, social status, education level, ethnic group, living condi...