2025 Tire Emissions Research Conference Program

Opening Remarks

Room: Samberg Salon MI

State of Knowledge session – Tire wear emission during the use phase

Room: Samberg Salon MI

Moderator: Elisabeth Rodland and Florian Breider

Speaker – Kathrin Müller

Session 1
Measuring Emissions: Methods, Standards, and Real-World Insights

Room: Samberg Salon MI

Moderators: Elisabeth Rodland and Florian Breider

1. Non-Exhaust Emissions from Tire-Road Contact: Emission Dynamics, Physico-Chemical Properties, Environmental Fate and Health Effects
   Keynote Speaker: Muresan Bogdan
2. Advancing standardization in tire and road wear particle (trwp) emissions: a repeatability assessment across new and post break-in tire conditions
   Speaker: Melis Seren Celenlioglu
3. Simultaneous measurement of tire wear and airborne tire wear particle emissions on an outer drum test bench
   Speaker: Ludwig Schubert
4. Development of a driving circuit per euro 7 for c1 tire abrasion using model-in-the-loop simulation and onroad convoy testing
   Speaker: Carlos Agudelo

Coffee Break

Room: Samberg Salon T

Session 2
From Composition to Fate: Understanding TRWP in the Environment

Room: Samberg Salon MI

Moderators: Jack Spengler and Elisabeth Rodland

1. Elemental profiles of treads and sidewalls of new vehicle tires
   Speaker: Aaron Specht
2. Volatile organic compounds emitted from tires: field measurements in tire warehouses and shops
   Speaker: Chunrong Jia
3. Airborne tire and road wear particle emissions under real world driving conditions
   Speaker: Salahuddin Setu
4. Environmental distribution of tire and road wear particles and their abiotic degradation in terrestrial environments
   Speaker: Luke Parker

Lunch Break

Room: Samberg Salon T

Sponsor Session – MIT Industrial Liaison Program (ILP)

Room: Samberg Salon MI

Speaker: Gayathri Srinivasan, Executive Director, MIT Corporate Relations

Session 3
Sources and Characterization of Tire and Road Wear Particles

Room: Samberg Salon MI

Moderators: Stephan Wagner and Ng How Yong

1. The Distribution and Quantification of Tire and Road Wear Particles in Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems: Comparative Insights from France, Japan, and the USA
   Keynote Speaker: Timothy Barber
2. Estimation of tire wear particle emissions in an urban watershed and riverine transport modeling using aist-shanel
   Speaker: Wataru Naito
3. Advancing the detection and understanding of tire and road wear particles in urban environments: transport, analytical method comparison, and novel sample preparation approaches
   Speaker: Kate Rowley
4. Concentration and distribution of tire-derived particles in coastal and lake sediments in Japan
   Speaker: Kosuke Tanaka
5. Advancing the quantification of tire and road particles in environmental samples via photothermal infrared microspectroscopy
   Speaker: Meibo He

Coffee Break

Room: Samberg Salon T

Partner Session – Health Effects Institute

Room: Samberg Salon MI

The Health Effects Institute (HEI) was created in 1980 as a nonprofit corporation to address a need among government, industry, and other sectors for impartial science of the highest quality to inform policy decisions around motor vehicle emissions. HEI’s long-standing government–industry partnership, independent research model, and impartiality have allowed it to maintain credibility as it provides science to sponsors and other sectors often with competing interests. In this session, HEI’s rigorous model will be described; this model has been applied for more than four decades to yield credible research that has informed important health-protective policy decisions. A few examples of impactful HEI-funded research will be highlighted, and two HEI-funded investigators will present their research that was funded to investigate exposure to non-tailpipe particulate emissions and possible health effects associated with those emissions.

1. HEI: A Model for Producing Impartial Science.
   Speaker: Elena Craft, President, HEI
2. A History of Policy-Relevant Science.
   Speaker: Ellen Mantus, Director of Science, HEI
3. Assessing the Impact of Non‐Tailpipe Emissions from Traffic on the Asthmatic Airway (IONA).
   Speaker: Chris Griffiths, Queen Mary University of London
4. Improved Characterization of the Real‐World Contributions and Impacts of Non-tailpipe Particulate Matter Emissions.
   Speaker: Greg Evans, University of Toronto
5. Q&A – Elena Craft, President, HEI

Poster Reception

Room: Samberg Salon West