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 includes included in the study and it's worth a read.

This just in! Hot things are hot and they make other things hot.

No shit? 🤦

I kinda thought that's what the heat island effect was

This also has an effect on the local weather, right? Severe storms tend to break up or move around large urban areas that put out a lot of heat?

And very often people sitting in parked vehicles will idle the engine for long periods of time so they won't get hot or cold.

Climate change, cars have been here since 1950

correction: heat from large and combustible vehicles

(also wide stroads and lack of trees; zoning laws, with the exception of isolating heavy industry, also don't benefit society much, as they contribute to urban sprawl, meaning people need to travel longer to go to work).

Heat from sun warming Earth.

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Ok bye.

Between this and the large swathes of asphalt for driving and parking, of course every city is boiling hot.

Stop routing highways through cities and start making bike lanes, dammit!

Heat sources contribute to rising temperatures. Weird.

The normalization of car-based infrastructure is one of the biggest fuck-ups of civilization. The negative effects just keep on going

Look I get the point people are making about cars but the basics of this is just stupid. Things that generate heat contribute to the overall temperature?!

What a surprise! Who would have thought hat having thousands of gasoline powered radiators driving around 24/7 would generate heat in a city.

Obligatory !fuckcars@lemmy.world

Fork found in kitchen type findings.

haha, I was just thinking about how this is very noticeable here in Manchester, then saw the URL!

How did they figure that one out?

Always did?

What is the point of a study that confirms what is already known? Paved streets are an even bigger contributor.

What a surprise!

This means scientists and stakeholders can explore how shifts in transport systems, such as the move toward electric vehicles

And transit. But given transit takes decades even when the government supports it, the EV transition is key