AI improves detail, estimate of urban air pollution

AI improves detail, estimate of urban air pollution

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230113145330.htm

Now, city planners and government health officials can obtain a more precise accounting about the well-being of urban dwellers and the air they breathe, from new research published December 2022 in the journal Transportation Research Part D.

"Infrastructure determines our living environment, our exposure," said senior author Oliver Gao, the Howard Simpson Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the College of Engineering at Cornell University. "Air pollution impact due to transportation -- put out as exhaust from the cars and trucks that drive on our streets -- is very complicated. Our infrastructure, transportation and energy policies are going to impact air pollution and hence public health."