The 8th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (8HUES) was held on
12-14 June 2006 in Nicosia, Cyprus. 8HUES was hosted in Cyprus by the
Cyprus Institute. HUES is run by Chalmers University of Technology
within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (AGS). The following facts
provide a background for 8HUES: - 150 abstracts for posters and papers
were accepted - 80 delegates (24 female) attended the symposium - 23
countries were represented, including all continents - 71 oral
presentations at the symposium - 20 poster presentations - 50 written
manuscripts for these proceedings HUES was initiated by Professor Ron
Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic (now University) in the early 1980s.
The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in highway
pollution. These challenges particularly - cluded urban photochemical
smog, with an emphasis on ozone formation and particle release. The
first symposium was titled "Highway Pollution" and had a clear aim to
make a difference. The proceedings were published in an
interdisciplinary journal.