AMBIENT AIR MONITORING FOR HIGHWAY ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS

The ever-increasing demands for accurate analysis of air quality impacts of highway proposals have caused ambient air quality monitoring to become a topic of substantial concern to transportation analysts. The data acquired through ambient air monitoring are an essential input to the mathematical models used for highway air pollution forecasting, both for the determination of ambient background levels and for the validation and calibration of the models themselves. Despite its importance, however a standardized body of procedure and good practice for this type of data acquisition has developed slowly. Because of the substantial differences between this type of ambient monitoring and that done routinely by state environmental agencies for their urban-area air quality surveillance programs, the techniques for highway ambient monitoring have largely grown out of the efforts and experimentation of the state and federal transportation agencies themselves. This paper presents some of the considerations and results of such an effort by the New York State Department of Transportation, which has had an active and extensive program in this field since 1972. /Author/

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  • Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Presented at the Conference on the State of the Art of Assessing Transportation-Related Air Quality Impacts, Washington, D.C. October 22-24, 1975.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • Palmieri, F L
• Conference:
  • Conference on the State of the Art of Assessing Transportation-Related Air Quality Impacts
  • Location: Washington District of Columbia, United States
  • Date: 1975-10-22 to 1975-10-24
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 190-197
• Monograph Title: Assessing transportation-related air quality impacts
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 167
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Calibration; Data collection; Environment; Forecasting; Impact studies; Mathematical models; Monitoring; Standardization; Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Ambience
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00139664
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Sep 16 1976 12:00AM