| | Discuss potential research/policy questions | | - Are socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods/populations disproportionately exposed to ozone or particulate matter pollution?
- How much does vehicle idling affect nearby air quality?
- How does traffic congestion relate to air quality?
- How does air quality vary across traffic conditions (e.g. free flows vs. stop and go) and road capacity and connectivity to other roads?
- How does air quality differ in space and time across urban, suburban, and rural/agricultural land uses?
- How do agricultural practices (e.g. sugarcane burning) affect air quality?
- Can we reconstruct transportation schedules (e.g. buses, trains) based on air quality data?
- TODO:
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| Discuss Potential Sensor Sites | | - 250 total sensors
- Initial proposed sensor mix
- 175 with cheap ozone only (small boxes)
- 75 large box sensors
- 15 cheap ozone, expensive ozone
- 35 cheap ozone, expensive ozone, cheap pm
- 15 cheap ozone, expensive ozone, cheap pm, expensive pm
- 10 cheap ozone, expensive ozone, expensive pm
- Updated proposed sensor mix
- 175 with cheap ozone only (small boxes)
- 75 large box sensors
- 50 cheap ozone, expensive ozone, cheap pm
- 25 cheap ozone, expensive ozone, expensive pm
- Can possibly remove some cheap ozone from the large boxes to save money (e.g. keep 25 with both ozone)
- Some combination of sensor boxes will also have temperature and humidity sensors (e.g. the 75 with both temperature and ozone)
- Once large box prototypes are complete, we will evaluate whether to abandon small boxes and use large for all
- Sensor placement
- Assumptions
- 175 with only cheap ozone
- 75 with ozone and pm and temperature and humidity
- UL Facilities
- Cade Farm
- LU: Ag
- Network: Campus network
- Energy Center
- LU: Rice and crawfish fields
- Network: Campus network
- Ecology Center
- LU: Suburban, near I-10
- Network: Campus
- Cajun Field Bus Stop
- Lots of idling
- Would want PM
- Rex Street Bus Stop
- Lots of idling
- Would want PM
- The Union bus stop
- Lots of idling
- Would want PM
- Other places on campus
- In/near parking decks
- Along pedestrian only corridors
- Soofa benches, which can track occupancy via Bluetooth
- Quad
- Libraries
- Rec. fields along Cajundome
- Network access
- Airport?
- LCG Facilities
- Bus terminal
- Parks
- Allow us to look at social justice issues
- Parks with rec. centers would have power and wifi
- Sites:
- Golf Course (Domain Recration Center; 901 Mudd Ave.)
- Dorsey-Donlon Park (MLK Rec. Center)
- Debaillon Park (J. Carleton Jame Rec. Center)
- Girard Park
- Acadiana Park (Nature Station)
- Beaullieu Park (Comeaux Recreation Center)
- Graham Brown Memorial Park (Georges Dupuis Rec. center)
- Heymann Park (Heymann Park Recreation Center)
- Thomas Park
- Neyland Park (Robichaux Rec. Center)
- Pa Davis Park (George Bowles Rec. Center)
- City Halll
- DEQ Facility off of Dugas Road
- Near compost facility, fire training center
- Traffic poles
- We plan to select traffic signals later based on where we plan to place other sensors (i.e. fill in the gap)
- Hospitals
- LPSS
- David Thibodaux STEM
- Lafayette Middle School Environmental Science Academy
- Gretchen L Vanicor (LA.edu) can contact LPSS to begin discussions about starting discussions at these schools and to solicit other schools that may be interested
- Bayou Vermillion District
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