Urban Air Pollution Mapping and Traffic Intensity: Active Transport Application

Rasa Zalakeviciute, Adrian Buenano, David Sannino and Yves Philippe Rybarczyk

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Abstract: Air pollution represents one of the greatest risks to human health, with most of the world's cities exceeding World Health Organization's recommendations for air quality. In developing countries, a major share of air pollution comes from traffic, consequently, creating air pollution hot spots inside urban street networks. While the world needs to switch to more active and sustainable ways of commuting in order to reduce traffic emissions and help improve degrading cardiopulmonary health due to increasingly sedentary habits, studies point to the negative effects of physical activity near traffic emissions. Common approaches of urban cycling infrastructure planning rely on space availability and route needs, omitting the most vital aspect--air quality. This study, therefore, combines the worldwide need for active commute and health benefits of the cyclists. Our goal was to produce urban pollution map through the geoprocessing of Google Traffic data, validated through the correlation of street level PM2.5 (particulate matter

Keywords: air pollution; urban planning; active travel; mapping; health (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.79570

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