Hyperlocal Monitoring of Traffic-Related Air Pollution to Assess Near-Term Impacts of Sustainable Transportation Interventions

Traffic and air pollution are two of the South Coast Air Basin’s most difficult challenges for environmental sustainability. This challenge also exists at local levels, such as in the City of Riverside, where two major highways service the area (CA 60/I-215 and CA 91) and background air pollution is high in the afternoons due to pollution transport and photochemistry. The South Coast Air Quality Management District predicts continued increases in vehicle miles of travel (VMT) in the Basin, while secondary ozone levels are also beginning to increase after decades long reductions. Heavy-duty trips are also increasing due to increasing goods movement activity in inland Southern California. Therefore, it can be conjectured that traffic-related air pollution will continue to be a challenge for the City of Riverside, whose corridors service a high volume of logistics activity. This project proposes a low-cost, measurement-based approach for assessing the impacts of sustainable traffic interventions on local air pollution. Traffic-related air pollutions, NO₂ and PM₂.₅, will be measured along an urban corridor while simultaneously implementing eco-driving strategies as vehicles pass through signalized intersections. The chosen testbed location is the City of Riverside Innovation Corridor, a six-mile roadway that services downtown Riverside, University of California, Riverside, and several businesses and community organizations. Evaluation of traffic and air quality feedbacks in the testbed will provide insight into the effectiveness of wider-scale implementation of smart transportation technologies in the City of Riverside for the improvement local air quality.

• Record URL:
  https://ncst.ucdavis.edu/project/hyperlocal-monitoring-traffic-related-air-pollution-assess-near-term-impacts-sustainable

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $100553
• Contract Numbers:

  DOT 69A3551747114

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Riverside

  Center for Environmental Research and Technology
  900 University Avenue
  Riverside, CA  United States  92521-0425
• Project Managers:

  Iacobucci, Lauren

• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Sustainable Transportation

  University of California, Davis
  Davis, CA  United States 

  University of California, Riverside

  Center for Environmental Research and Technology
  900 University Avenue
  Riverside, CA  United States  92521-0425
• Principal Investigators:

  Ivey, Cesunica

  Hao, Peng

• Start Date: 20200701
• Expected Completion Date: 20220930
• Actual Completion Date: 20221201
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Air quality; Ecodriving; Environmental impacts; Environmental monitoring; Evaluation and assessment; Exhaust gases; Local transportation; Mobile sources; Particulates; Signalized intersections; Sustainable transportation; Test beds; Vehicle miles of travel
• Geographic Terms: Riverside (California)
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01747499
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Sustainable Transportation
• Contract Numbers: DOT 69A3551747114
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Aug 4 2020 11:52AM