Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new way to measure how traffic contributes to rising urban temperatures, revealing that everyday vehicle use can play a measurable role in making cities warmer.The researchers created a new physics-based module that allows heat produced by urban traffic to be represented directly within...
This study seems to be less about studying traffic’s effect on heat as it is refining the process by which that heat is measured in order to be more accurate for modeling and measuring that effect over time as traffic volume and type changes.
This model measures not just greenhouse gas emissions, but also the “anthropogenic heat” generated by ICE, HEV, and EV vehicles including when they brake, the heat their engines produce (yes even fully electric vehicle engines), and their exhaust gases.
If you are one of the people who made a knee jerk reaction comment without reading the article or the study, all I can say is that you’re preconceived notions on the subject are keeping you from good data
includesincluded in the study and it’s worth a read.