A Pseudo Individual Near Real-Time Measurement for Assessing Air Pollution Exposure in Selected Texas Cities
dc.contributor.advisor | Lu, Yongmei | |
dc.contributor.author | Fang, Tianfang Bernie | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Zhan, F. Benjamin | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Dixon, Richard W. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Fonstad, Mark A. | |
dc.contributor.committeeMember | Lin, Ge | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-11-05T18:21:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-11-05T18:21:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2012-12 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Air pollution causes severe health effects and economic loss. Many major air-pollution-related studies focus on place-based measures and simulation. Typical place-based air pollution studies cannot portray individuals’ air pollution exposure scenarios. In recent years, individual-based air pollution exposure measures have been developed rapidly.</p> <p>Based on an extensive literature review of place-based geography and people-based geography, air pollution exposure assessment methods (including place-based and individual-based ones), and health effects of air pollution exposure, this dissertation research aims to investigate an innovative modeling approach for assessing individual near real-time air pollution exposure. The first part of the model development is to design a series of near real-time space-time air pollution scenario cubes. Originating from time geography, space-time cubes provide an approach to integrate spatial and temporal air pollution information into a 3D space. The base of space-time cubes represents the variation of air pollution in a 2D geographical space while the height represents time. The second part of the model development is to geovisualize volunteers’ individual real-time space-time trajectories using 3D space-time path maps. The last part of the model development is to integrate space-time cubes and space-time trajectories to develop the pseudo individual near real-time air pollution monitoring (PIRAM in short) models and the derivative models – the integrated pseudo individual near real-time air quality index (PIRAQI in short) models and the integrated pseudo individual near real-time air pollution dose simulation (PIRADS in short) models. Volunteers’ individual diurnal ambient ozone (O3) pollution exposures in Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are modeled in this dissertation research.</p> <p>The contributions of this dissertation research are four-fold. First, it can help in understanding air pollution and individual exposure from a people-based geography perspective. Second, it enriches the individual-based air pollution exposure measure study by emphasizing individual travel behaviors in the individual air pollution exposure context. Third, its results can reveal the characteristics of the individual real-time air pollution exposure, which will contribute to local air pollution policy making. Fourth, the PIRAM platform only needs one handheld device terminal, such as a GPS smartphone, which ensure a good end user experience and potential commercial value.</p> | |
dc.description.department | Geography and Environmental Studies | |
dc.format | Text | |
dc.format.extent | 196 pages | |
dc.format.medium | 1 file (.pdf) | |
dc.identifier.citation | Fang, T. B. (2012). <i>A pseudo individual near real-time measurement for assessing air pollution exposure in selected Texas cities</i> (Unpublished dissertation). Texas State University-San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas. | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10877/4365 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.subject | Information technology | |
dc.subject | Air pollution | |
dc.subject | Personal exposure assessment | |
dc.subject | Near real-time | |
dc.subject | Space-time cube | |
dc.subject | Land Use Regression (LUR) | |
dc.subject | Spatial interpolation | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Air--Pollution | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Air--Pollution--Texas | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Air--Pollution--Health aspects | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Air quality management | en_US |
dc.title | A Pseudo Individual Near Real-Time Measurement for Assessing Air Pollution Exposure in Selected Texas Cities | |
dc.type | Dissertation | |
thesis.degree.department | Geography | |
thesis.degree.discipline | Geographic Information Science | |
thesis.degree.grantor | Texas State University-San Marcos | |
thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy |