Assess Transportation Impact on the Urban Heat Island Using Thermal Remote Sensing

The goal of this project is to assess the impact of transportation on climate change by using remote sensing technology and statistical analysis. There are two major categories of anthropogenic heat sources that lead to global warming, stationary anthropogenic heat (change of landuse during urbanization and industrialization), and mobile anthropogenic heat (transportation). For a long time, it has been hard to separate and quantify each factor since they work mutually resulting the climate change. This study will take the unique opportunity of COVID-19 lockdown in most major cities in California, US, and propose a new statistical regression model with a dummy variable to access the mobile anthropogenic heat source. Thermal remote sensing will be used to generate land surface temperature (LST) maps over the study region to calculate the urban heat island extend and intensity. The study team will acquire the MODIS remote sensing imagery along with the local meteorological data to compare temperature dynamics in California cities before and during the COVID lockdown. Then use the statistical model to analyze the data and try to quantify the transportation impact on urban heat in California.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $6505
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747127

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

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

  Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility

  San Jose State University
  San Jose, CA  United States  95112
• Principal Investigators:

  Yang, Bo

• Start Date: 20211001
• Expected Completion Date: 20230331
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: COVID-19; Environmental impacts; Heat; Remote sensing; Transportation; Travel restrictions; Urban areas
• Geographic Terms: California
• Subject Areas: Environment; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01859556
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Mineta Consortium for Transportation Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747127
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 27 2022 4:18PM