Webinar: Exposures to particles and volatile organic compounds across multiple transportation modes

Our CEO & Founder, Nick Molden presented a webinar on Exposures to particles and volatile organic compounds across multiple transportation modes on 14th December 2022. To watch the webinar and download the presentation please see below.

The webinar covered what’s is cleanest way to get from London Paddington to the centre of Oxford?  Not in terms of tailpipe emissions, but rather in terms of the traveller’s own exposure to the air quality inside the mode of transport.  Emissions Analytics studied this in a project for the TRANSITION Network in the UK, and this webinar will present the findings.
 
Personal exposures were tested in real-world conditions across nine different transport modes on journeys, covering active travel, public transport and private cars.  Such exposures are relevant to questions of traveller comfort, safety in the context of airborne diseases such as Covid-19 and a growing awareness of health, safety and productivity effects of interior air quality.  Pollutants measured were particle number, particle mass, carbon dioxide and speciated volatile organic compounds, using devices carried on or with the traveller.
 
The results will reveal the most and least polluted methods of transport, and the likely sources of the pollution.  Further, the dynamic nature of pollution will also be shown, to quantify when total exposures are mostly driven by short, larger spikes rather than persistent lower levels.  The findings are intended to feed into the growing body of work around vehicle interior air quality, including the new CEN standardised methodology, CWA17934.