The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project
Emissions from transportation sources can impact local air quality and contribute to adverse health effects. The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS), conducted over a 1-year period, researched emissions source characterization in the Argentine, Turner, and Armourd...
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Sue Kimbrough Stephen Krabbe Richard Baldauf Timothy Barzyk Matthew Brown Steven Brown Carry Croghan Michael Davis Parikshit Deshmukh Rachelle Duvall Stephen Feinberg Vlad Isakov Russell Logan Tim McArthur Amy Shields The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project Chemosensors near-source railyard PM<sub>2.5</sub> black carbon citizen science low-cost sensors |
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The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project |
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The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project |
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The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project |
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The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project |
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The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the Project |
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kansas city transportation and local-scale air quality study (kc-traqs): integration of low-cost sensors and reference grade monitoring in a complex metropolitan area. part 1: overview of the project |
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Emissions from transportation sources can impact local air quality and contribute to adverse health effects. The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS), conducted over a 1-year period, researched emissions source characterization in the Argentine, Turner, and Armourdale, Kansas (KS) neighborhoods and the broader southeast Kansas City, KS area. This area is characterized as a near-source environment with impacts from large railyard operations, major roadways, and commercial and industrial facilities. The spatial and meteorological effects of particulate matter less than 2.5 µm (PM<sub>2.5</sub>), and black carbon (BC) pollutants on potential population exposures were evaluated at multiple sites using a combination of regulatory grade methods and instrumentation, low-cost sensors, citizen science, and mobile monitoring. The initial analysis of a subset of these data showed that mean reference grade PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations (gravimetric) across all sites ranged from 7.92 to 9.34 µg/m<sup>3</sup>. Mean PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations from low-cost sensors ranged from 3.30 to 5.94 µg/m<sup>3</sup> (raw, uncorrected data). Pollution wind rose plots suggest that the sites are impacted by higher PM<sub>2.5</sub> and BC concentrations when the winds originate near known source locations. Initial data analysis indicated that the observed PM<sub>2.5</sub> and BC concentrations are driven by multiple air pollutant sources and meteorological effects. The KC-TRAQS overview and preliminary data analysis presented will provide a framework for forthcoming papers that will further characterize emission source attributions and estimate near-source exposures. This information will ultimately inform and clarify the extent and impact of air pollutants in the Kansas City area. |
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doaj-bbb564a1b3454d4abe089fb2d17683772020-11-24T22:01:18ZengMDPI AGChemosensors2227-90402019-05-01722610.3390/chemosensors7020026chemosensors7020026The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS): Integration of Low-Cost Sensors and Reference Grade Monitoring in a Complex Metropolitan Area. Part 1: Overview of the ProjectSue Kimbrough0Stephen Krabbe1Richard Baldauf2Timothy Barzyk3Matthew Brown4Steven Brown5Carry Croghan6Michael Davis7Parikshit Deshmukh8Rachelle Duvall9Stephen Feinberg10Vlad Isakov11Russell Logan12Tim McArthur13Amy Shields14U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 300 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 300 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, KS 66219, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 300 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101, USAJacobs Technology Inc., 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAORISE Participant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Exposure Research Laboratory, 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAJacobs Technology Inc., 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAScience Systems and Applications, Inc., 109 TW Alexander Dr., Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USAU.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7, 11201 Renner Blvd., Lenexa, KS 66219, USAEmissions from transportation sources can impact local air quality and contribute to adverse health effects. The Kansas City Transportation and Local-Scale Air Quality Study (KC-TRAQS), conducted over a 1-year period, researched emissions source characterization in the Argentine, Turner, and Armourdale, Kansas (KS) neighborhoods and the broader southeast Kansas City, KS area. This area is characterized as a near-source environment with impacts from large railyard operations, major roadways, and commercial and industrial facilities. The spatial and meteorological effects of particulate matter less than 2.5 µm (PM<sub>2.5</sub>), and black carbon (BC) pollutants on potential population exposures were evaluated at multiple sites using a combination of regulatory grade methods and instrumentation, low-cost sensors, citizen science, and mobile monitoring. The initial analysis of a subset of these data showed that mean reference grade PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations (gravimetric) across all sites ranged from 7.92 to 9.34 µg/m<sup>3</sup>. Mean PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentrations from low-cost sensors ranged from 3.30 to 5.94 µg/m<sup>3</sup> (raw, uncorrected data). Pollution wind rose plots suggest that the sites are impacted by higher PM<sub>2.5</sub> and BC concentrations when the winds originate near known source locations. Initial data analysis indicated that the observed PM<sub>2.5</sub> and BC concentrations are driven by multiple air pollutant sources and meteorological effects. The KC-TRAQS overview and preliminary data analysis presented will provide a framework for forthcoming papers that will further characterize emission source attributions and estimate near-source exposures. This information will ultimately inform and clarify the extent and impact of air pollutants in the Kansas City area.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/7/2/26near-sourcerailyardPM<sub>2.5</sub>black carboncitizen sciencelow-cost sensors |