Built Environment and Sustainability: Transportation in Practice, Emissions, and Air Pollution

Oliver Gao and Todd Cowen, Center for Transportation, Environment, and Community Health (CTECH), Cornell University

In this lab session, students first learned systems thinking about the complexity of transportation, emissions, air pollution, and public health problems. Afterward, they conducted real-time measurement of respiratory exposures at different places/facilities (e.g., walking, on a bus, near a stop sign, in a parking lot, etc.) on the Cornell campus. With the collected exposure data, the students came back to the lab to analyze the data and discuss the results. The lab session consisted of a presentation and discussion led by Oliver Gao on transportation, emissions, and air quality, and a discussion and demonstration of pollutant dispersion led by Todd Cowen.
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