Respiratory ventilation and inhaled air pollution dose while riding with a conventional and an electric-assisted cycle along routes with different elevation profiles

2021/07/15 by Elke Lathouwers, Evi Dons, Toon Ampe +3 · 1 voice
Engineering · Environmental Science · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Air Quality and Health Impacts #Environmental science #Geography #Internal medicine #Medicine #Meteorology #Respiratory system #Urban Transport and Accessibility #Vehicle emissions and performance #Ventilation (architecture)

paper · doi:10.1016/j.jth.2021.101132

openalex publication_date 2021/07/15 · crossref created 2021/07/15 · crossref issued 2021/09/01 · crossref published 2021/09/01 · crossref published-print 2021/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref deposited 2025/11/01 · crossref indexed 2026/02/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

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Discussions

• Indeed. The whole discussion is a bit of a non-issue. Obviously the amount of effort/excercise/METs is lower on a e-bike for a fixed-distance commute eg in Brussels. With difference depending on eg sl [bsky, 2 points, 1 comments]