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Vehicle interior air quality conditions when travelling by taxi
Teresa Moreno, Antonio Pacitto, Amaia Fernández, Fulvio Amato, Esther Marco, Joan O. Grimalt, Giorgio Buonanno & Xavier Querol
DOI 10.1016/j.envres.2019.02.042CLM-TAXI-001 · VERIFIED
Air freshener and off-gassing inside taxis
Inside 14 pairs of Barcelona taxis, the volatile organic compounds reflected a complex mixture of traffic-related emissions entering the cabin, but those from inside the cabin included high monoterpene concentrations from an air freshener, and interior off-gassing may explain why the youngest taxi had the highest levels of alkanes and aromatic compounds (a chemical family, not a description of smell).
Taxis in one city on weekdays, mostly driven with windows open; it measures air composition, not odour.
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