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      <title>Improving Vehicle Cabin Air Quality in Daily Transportation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Drivers and passengers are exposed to traffic-related air pollutants during their ride. This exposure can be high even for a short ride if the driving route includes highly urbanized areas with a large amount of traffic. Unfortunately, the public is vulnerable to this type of exposure in the absence of proper regulations for vehicle cabin air quality. This project aims to assess the effectiveness of portable purifiers and adsorption type cabin filters and establish a test method. First, the study will conduct a survey on portable air purifiers and to identify widely used products. Second, the project team will evaluate the effectiveness of air purifiers when used inside vehicle cabin compared to the existing vehicle cabin filter for particles. Third, the project team will evaluate the effectiveness of air purifiers and adsorption type cabin filters for a gaseous pollutant—nitrogen dioxide—in vehicle cabin conditions. Fourth, the project team will develop a lab-test set-up to specifically evaluate the effectiveness of adsorption type cabin filters. This project will help mitigate the adverse health effects of traffic-related air pollution by reducing their concentrations in vehicle cabins using advanced filters or portable air purifiers.    ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:25:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Enhanced Covid-19 Rail Car Air Filtration and Air Purification Research Demonstration</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The project will test and evaluate the effectiveness of enhanced air filtration (MERV-13) and purification (UVC disinfection) technologies on railcars in revenue service.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 16:26:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Developing Self-cleaning and Air Purifying Transportation Infrastructure Components to Minimize Environmental Impact of Transportation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Developing transportation infrastructure without compromising environmental quality is of paramount importance. This can also lead to improvement in the US economic competitiveness, which is intimately linked to modern transportation systems. However, developing such system in a sustainable way is not trivial. The proposed paper will explore a topic of self-cleaning and air purifying structural components, which can save energy via reducing of surface contamination (e.g. soiling), improve environment via decomposition of pollutants emitted from the vehicles and protect human health by decreasing the ozone levels in urban environment. We will look into concrete, glass and asphalt coated with inexpensive photocatalytic films, which are currently being developed in collaboration with a small New York (NY) based company. This paper will assess the long term performance and air purifying potential of these films, which will be done in collaboration with the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and the Brookhaven National Lab. Moreover, this project will have an enormous impact on a career development of the principal investigator (PI), who is the first ever Provostial appointment in Materials and Environment area here at Stony Brook. Ultimately, the above-mentioned approach can have a significant relevance to the U.S.Department of Transportation (DOT) goals, such as development of livable communities by providing an access to environmentally sustainable travel options. It can also have a potentially transformative impact in terms of another DOT goal focused on environmental sustainability, where self-cleaning properties of the coatings can improve both energy and water conservation. This paper also aims at contributing to Focus area 5 (Promoting livable and sustainable communities through quality of life improvements and diverse transportation development) and Focus Area 7 (Promoting freight productivity, efficiency, and sustainability through multi-modal policy, planning and logistics). The proposed work project will involve both literature and experimental components as we already accumulated some background data to make a significant progress in this area. For example, we currently have all experimental setups necessary for measurements of self-cleaning properties of coated concrete and asphalt. Moreover, this will be complemented by experimental apparatus for determining atmospheric pollutants removal, which has been already tested in our lab.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:23:31 GMT</pubDate>
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