Reducing traffic pollution through the use of mobile sensors! Aimed at this, the Minister for Transport Stephen Ladyman has announced the next stage in a £4.1m research project named MESSAGE. The project will be funded jointly by the Department for Transport and ESPRC.
The sensors will be small enough capable of slipping into a person’s pocket. And the other sensors will be of the size of shoeboxes to fit on public buses during the project. The data from these will be collected and processed in real time.
The project will be using pedestrians and buses as mobile sensors! It will collect vital real time air quality data, use the data collected to show how factors such as the weather, street design and driving behavior affect the build-up of traffic pollution.
Via: The Engineer
