{"id":49644,"date":"2024-07-29T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=49644"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T10:41:55","slug":"new-study-tracks-air-pollution-exposure-throughout-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/new-study-tracks-air-pollution-exposure-throughout-the-day\/49644\/","title":{"rendered":"New study tracks air pollution exposure throughout the day"},"content":{"rendered":"
The study, based in the Bronx, New York, does not just estimate air pollution exposure based on where people live or work.<\/p>\n
It uses mobile data to examine where people go during a typical day, building a more thorough assessment of the environment\u2019s impact on them.<\/p>\n
The research finds that when daily travel patterns are considered, exposure to particulate matter 2.5 microns or bigger rises by about 2.4%.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the main strengths of the study is that we tried to improve the information we use, on the air quality side and also from the fine-grained estimation of people\u2019s mobility,\u201d explained Paolo Santi, who co-authored the paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat allowed us to build trajectories of people\u2019s movement, so it was the first time we were able to combine this data to develop a new measure of air pollution exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n
People\u2019s daily pollution exposure may be a complex combination of either living near, working near, or travelling by sources of particulate matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople move around the city for jobs and education and more, and studying that is where we get this better information about exposure,\u201d said An Wang of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, another co-author of the study.<\/p>\nAnalysing levels of particulate matter in communities<\/h3>\n