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Data and recovered analysis code for "Quantification and mapping of tyre wear emissions: from EU regional analysis to global projections"
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This deposit shares the data and code behind a study estimating how much tiny plastic and rubber debris comes from car tires wearing down, across Europe and globally. Tire wear is a major, often overlooked source of microplastic pollution that can end up in water, soil and air, raising concerns about long-term exposure. Note that this is supporting data for reuse, not a new health finding itself, and some parts couldn't be fully matched to the original study's results.
This deposit contains supporting data and recovered analysis code for Chapter 3 of the doctoral thesis Microplastics: Sources, Pathways and Aquatic Fate. The chapter is based on the article "Quantification and mapping of tyre wear emissions: from EU regional analysis to global projections" (Environment International, 203, 109720; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2025.109720). The collection represents the thesis archive and should not be assumed to be an exact executable reproduction of the published article.The ZIP archive contains five values-only Excel workbooks, three R scripts and an English README. The data cover vehicle registrations and mileage, tire mass-loss and volume-loss assumptions, 136 literature emission-factor observations, EU-27 emission estimates and environmental pathways, model inputs, 57-country OLS estimates, and reported validation metrics. Units, sources, missing-value conventions and dataset-specific limitations are documented within the workbooks.The R files provide the recovered OLS/random-forest training and leave-one-out cross-validation section, OLS diagnostic plotting, and variable-importance/partial-dependence plotting. The scripts use English comments and archive-relative input paths. The importance and partial-dependence plotting script uses numerical arrays stored in the source; it does not calculate them from a fitted forest.The recovered model inputs and configurations have not been fully reconciled with all final thesis results. In particular, the historical TOTAL training response has 24 nonmissing country values, whereas the chapter reports 27; some uncertainty fields have unresolved statistical meaning; and historical software versions are not established. The README and Data Notes describe these limits. This deposit supports inspection and reuse of the available materials and does not claim complete reproduction of every reported result.
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