Section: New Results

Modelling the relationships between urban morphology, pollutant generation and concentration in the air using PLS path modelling

We have simultaneously modelled the factors that contribute to shaping the urban environment in terms of population density and activities and the level of land use mix on the one hand, and the mechanisms through which this urban morphology is linked to the emission of pollutants and their concentration in the air in the municipalities of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. To do this, we used the PLS path modelling approach, which is a method of estimating structural equations to model the relationships between latent variables obtained by extracting the information contained in the multidimensional data used to measure them. This work was carried out as part of Diop Samba's internship [8].