Mobile-phone data helps researchers study exposure to urban pollution

Friday, September 2, 2016 - 08:01 in Earth & Climate

What’s the best way to measure human exposure to urban pollution? Typically, cities do so by studying air-quality levels in fixed places. New York City, for example, has an extensive monitoring network that measures air quality in 155 locations. But now a study led by MIT researchers, focused on New York City, suggests that using […]

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