Traffic Air Pollutant Effects

Mobile Monitoring

Traffic Modelling, HamiltonJulie Wallace, CSPA, McMaster

High Pollution Triangle

Ravi Mahabir, Anthony Ciccone

Mar 09 2007 NO NO2 P10 SO2 CO

-100

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700

1128

1137

1145

1154

1203

1211

1220

1229

1237

1246

1255

1303

1312

1321

1329

1338

1347

1355

1404

1412

1421

1430

1438

1447

1456

1504

1513

1522

1530

1539

1548

1556

1605

1614

Time Hrs Mins

PM10

SO2

CO

NO

NO2

Burl/Kenil

Burl/QEW

Triple M

Road dust,Beach Rd.

Industry?Brant/Birch

Claremont

MtnRes

Claremont

North End

CannonYork/Locke

WestRes

MainMcMaster

Dundas

403,hill,Aberdeen,Main

Ancaster

Linc

Limeridge

country

HortonsPkingno drivethru

Hwy20/Barton

Highway Sampling

NOMarch 9th 2007

Traffic

Traffic

Traffic

Industry

High Pollution TriangleMcMaster Model – Rotek Mobile Data

Monitoring/Modeling Interaction

Sampling Track, Intersection Impacts, Road/Highway Impacts

Wind

Wind

Hwy 20/Queenston Intersection

Wind

McMaster Institute of Environment and HealthA Public Health Assessment ofMortality and Hospital Admissions

Attributable to Air Pollution in HamiltonPrepared by:Talar Sahsuvaroglu, PhD and Michael Jerrett, PhD

School of Geography and GeologyMay, 2003

Health Impacts Upwind DownwindCentennial/Queenston

Wind

100 200 300 400 500 600 700m

Hea

lth Im

pact

Wind

Health Close-upCentennial/Queenston

Noise Barrier Effects

Noise Barrier EffectHighway Downwind

Noise Barrier

QEW No Noise Barrier

Noise Barrier

QEW NOx Noise Barrier Effect

NO - No Barrier Away from QEW

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

0

395

NO Behind Barrier

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70