TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zulauf, Nicole
A1  - Dröge, Janis
A1  - Klingelhöfer, Doris
A1  - Braun, Markus
A1  - Oremek, Gerhard
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - Indoor air pollution in cars: an update on novel insights
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - From a global viewpoint, a lot of time is spent within the indoor air compartment of vehicles. A German study on mobility has revealed that, on average, people spend 45 minutes per day inside vehicles. In recent years the number of cars has increased to around 43 million vehicles in private households. This means that more than one car can be used in every household. The ratio has been growing, especially in eastern Germany and rural areas. "Overall and especially outside the cities, the car remains by far number one mode of transport, especially in terms of mileage". Therefore, numerous international studies have addressed different aspects of indoor air hygiene, in the past years. In this paper, meaningful original studies on car indoor air pollution, related to VOCs, COx, PMs, microbials, BFRs, OPFRs, cigarettes, electronic smoking devices, high molecular weight plasticizer, and NOx are summarized in the form of a review. This present review aimed to summarize recently published studies in this important field of environmental medicine and points to the need for further studies with special recommendations for optimizing the interior air hygiene.
KW  - car indoor
KW  - air pollution
KW  - volatile organic compounds (VOC)
KW  - carbon oxides (COx)
KW  - particulate matter (PM)
KW  - airborne bacteria
KW  - fungi
KW  - (novel) brominated flame retardants ((N)BFR)
KW  - organophosphate flame retardants (OFR)
KW  - high molecular weight plasticizer
KW  - nitrogen oxides (NOx)
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51259
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-512590
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
VL  - 16
IS  - 13, Art. 2441
SP  - 1
EP  - 11
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -