Communities have been faced with mobility and environmental challenges over decades. For example, the reliance on automobiles have led to decreased physical activities, increased air pollution, and transportation congestion in cities. Efforts to develop healthy, sustainable transportation and environmental systems often include provisions for increasing rates of active transportation and offering environmental exposure assessment to inform health-promoting policies. With rapid development in sensor technologies and geospatial techniques, opportunities arise to upgrade the solutions. This talk will introduce ongoing efforts in leveraging air and mobility solutions to address environmental and transportation barriers. Case studies in monitoring and modeling of air quality and mobility will be introduced. Particularly, experiences in field work, sensor technologies, and model development will be discussed.

Tianjun Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health at University of Kentucky. With background in exposure assessment and urban planning, his research focuses on leveraging sensor technologies and geospatial techniques to develop health-promoting community-based air and traffic monitoring campaigns and empirical models.