A Data Integration Approach to Estimating Personal Exposures to Air Pollution

Matthew L. Thomas; Gavin Shaddick; David Topping; Karyn Morrissey; Thomas J. Brannan; Mike Diessner; Ruth C.E. Bowyer; Stefan Siegert; Hugh Coe; James Evans; Fernando Benitez-Paez; James V. Zidek

doi:10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020701

A Data Integration Approach to Estimating Personal Exposures to Air Pollution

Matthew L. Thomas^*
, Gavin Shaddick
, David Topping
, Karyn Morrissey
, Thomas J. Brannan
, Mike Diessner
, Ruth C.E. Bowyer
, Stefan Siegert
, Hugh Coe
, James Evans
, Fernando Benitez-Paez
, James V. Zidek

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Technology, Management and Economics

University of Exeter
Royal Holloway University of London
University of Manchester
Newcastle University
Alan Turing Institute
University of British Columbia

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Abstract

Globally, air pollution is the largest environmental risk to public health. In order to inform policy and target mitigation strategies there is a need to increase our understanding of the (personal) exposures experienced by different population groups. The Data Integration Model for Exposures (DIMEX) integrates data on daily travel patterns and activities with measurements and models of air pollution using agent-based modelling to simulate the daily exposures of different population groups. Here we present the results of a case study using DIMEX to model personal exposures to PM2.5 in Greater Manchester, UK, and demonstrate its ability to explore differences in time activities and exposures for different population groups. DIMEX can also be used to assess the effects of reductions in ambient air pollution and when run with concentrations reduced to 5 μg/m3 (new WHO guidelines) lead to an estimated (mean) reduction in personal exposures between 2.7 and 3.1 μg/m3 across population (gender-age) groups.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
Number of pages	9
Publication date	2022
Pages	4551-4559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020701
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data - Osaka, Japan Duration: 17 Dec 2022 → 20 Dec 2022

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Conference	2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Big Data
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Osaka
Period	17/12/2022 → 20/12/2022
Sponsor	Ankura Consulting Group, LLC, Hitachi Zosen Corporation, KPMG Consulting Co., Ltd., NTT Data Intellilink Corporation, Think in Data Initiative, Association Inc

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Air pollution
Data Integration
Health effects
Micro-simulation

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Thomas, M. L., Shaddick, G., Topping, D., Morrissey, K., Brannan, T. J., Diessner, M., Bowyer, R. C. E., Siegert, S., Coe, H., Evans, J., Benitez-Paez, F., & Zidek, J. V. (2022). A Data Integration Approach to Estimating Personal Exposures to Air Pollution. In Proceedings of 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data) (pp. 4551-4559) https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020701

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A Data Integration Approach to Estimating Personal Exposures to Air Pollution

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