The 9th Highway and Urban Environment Symposium (9HUES) was held in
Madrid, Spain, from 9-11 June 2008. HUES is run by Chalmers University
of Technology within the Alliance for Global Sustainability (The AGS).
HUES was initiated by Professor Ron Hamilton at Middlesex Polytechnic
(now University) in the early 1980s and had the title "Highway
Pollution". The initial aim was to measure and assess challenges in
highway pollution, with a strong emphasis on urban photochemical smog,
ozone formation and particle release. After the first symposium, the
emphasis on air pollution issues continued through to Munich in 1989
where diesel particulate issues and the relevance to health through
measurements of PM10 emerged. The focus on air quality issues was also
strengthened. In parallel, the symposium started to receive an
increasing number of scientific contributions from the area of urban run
off, indeed to the extent that the title of the symposium was changed to
"Highway and Urban Pollution". Since then the importance of science in
support of policy became increasingly important as a key aspect of the
symposium. 9HUES was held at TRANSyT- Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,
Spain to provide a professional and scientific forum on global examples
of the science required to support pathways to a positive and
sustainable future in the highway and urban environment. This volume
contains papers grouped by topic on ustainable mobility and management;
air pollution; trace elements in the environment; urban water
contamination, contaminated sites and treatment; urban climate and
climate change.
