Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt
Title | Methodology for individual air pollution exposure estimation based on data from air pollution concentration maps, daily routes and activities |
Publication Type | Communications in International Conferences |
Year of Publication | 2019 |
Authors | Pereira P., Mendes B., and Silva L. T. |
Abstract | Air pollution epidemiological studies typically only estimate individual exposure at residence locations. However, people spend a large amount of time away from their homes during the day. Integrating mobility and time-activity data may reduce errors and improve individual air pollution exposure estimation. Using air pollution concentration maps (PM10 and NO2) data and with collecting individual data from each person using surveys (origin/destination location, travel mode used and the reasons for daily movements) it is possible to estimate individual daily exposure to air pollution , integrating all this data in a GIS platform. The methodology described in this work includes all these items and it was adopted in a Portuguese medium-sized city called Guimarães. The results of this methodology showed that there are significant variations in the values of individual exposure to air pollution, compared to the methodology that only considers residence information of the person to calculate individual exposure to air pollution. Moreover, the sociodemographic data of each individual also play an important role in estimating exposure to individual air pollution. |
Conference Name | International Conference on Smart Cities. |
Journal | Proceedings of International Conference on Smart Cities. |
Pagination | 1-6 |
Date Published | 2019-07-19 |
Publisher | ICSC |
Conference Location | Seoul, Korea. |
DOI | doi:... |
URL | http://icsc2019.org/ |
Keywords | air pollution concentration maps, Daily individual air pollution exposure, GIS., NO2, PM10 |
Rights | embargoedAccess (1 Year) |
Peer reviewed | yes |
Status | published |
The Centre for Territory, Environment and Construction (CTAC) is a research unit of the School of Engineering of University of Minho (UMinho), recognised by the “FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (Foundation for Science and Technology), associated to the Department of Civil Engineering (DEC), with whom it shares resources and namely human resources.
Currently CTAC aggregates 25 researchers holding a PhD of which 20 are faculty professors of the Civil Engineering Department. Read more
Centro de Território, Ambiente e Construção
Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho
Campus de Azurém
4800-058 Guimarães, Portugal
Phone: + 351 253 510 200 (517 206)
Fax: + 351 253 510 217
Email: geral@ctac.uminho.pt