TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dröge, Janis
A1  - Müller, Ruth
A1  - Scutaru, Cristian
A1  - Braun, Markus
A1  - Groneberg, Jan David Alexander
T1  - Mobile measurements of particulate matter in a car cabin : local variations, contrasting data from mobile versus stationary measurements and the effect of an opened versus a closed window
T2  - International journal of environmental research and public health
N2  - Air pollution of particulate matter (PM) from traffic emissions has a significant impact on human health. Risk assessments for different traffic participants are often performed on the basis of data from local air quality monitoring stations. Numerous studies demonstrated the limitation of this approach. To assess the risk of PM exposure to a car driver more realistically, we measure the exposure to PM in a car cabin with a mobile aerosol spectrometer in Frankfurt am Main under different settings (local variations, opened versus a closed window) and compare it with data from stationary measurement. A video camera monitored the surroundings for potential PM source detection. In-cabin concentrations peaked at 508 µg m−3 for PM10, 133.9 µg m−3 for PM2.5, and 401.3 µg m−3 for coarse particles, and strongly depended on PM size and PM concentration in ambient air. The concentration of smaller particles showed low fluctuations, but the concentration of coarse particles showed high fluctuations with maximum values on busy roads. Several of these concentration peaks were assigned to the corresponding sources with characteristic particle size distribution profiles. The closure of the car window reduced the exposure to PM, and in particular to coarse particles. The mobile measured PM values differed significantly from stationary PM measures, although good correlations were computed for finer particles. Mobile rather than stationary measurements are essential to assess the risk of PM exposure for car passengers.
KW  - particulate matter
KW  - mobile air quality study
KW  - in-cabin exposure
KW  - particle size distribution
KW  - traffic emissions
KW  - ventilation modes
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48567
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-485674
SN  - 1660-4601
SN  - 1661-7827
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
VL  - 15
IS  - 12, Art. 2642
SP  - 1
EP  - 20
PB  - MDPI AG
CY  - Basel
ER  -