environments Article Vehicular Emission: Estimate of Air Pollutants to Guide Local Political Choices. A Case Study Sergio Mazza 1, Donatella Aiello 2 , Anastasia Macario 1 and Pierantonio De Luca 3,* 1 Department of Ingegneria dell’Ambiente, University of Calabria, I-87030 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +39-0984-496757 Received: 22 April 2020; Accepted: 15 May 2020; Published: 16 May 2020 Abstract: The aim of this case study was to show how, with the use of software, is it possible to carry out a preventive screening of vehicular emissions. Moreover, thanks to this preliminary analysis, some areas that are potentially polluted can be identified in advance and suitable samplings on small-scale on them would help to verify the effectiveness of policies that can be adopted for the reduction of pollution. To this end, this paper reports a case study on vehicle traffic pollution in Calabria, a region in the south of Italy. We used the methodology called Corinair (Coordination Information AIR), developed by the EEA (European Environment Agency) and uses the software Copert4 (Computer Program to calculate Emission from Road Traffic). The total emissions per area were analyzed and the emissions for particular pollutants per unit area (km2) and per citizen were considered.