GIS Application in Urban Traffic Air Pollution Exposure Study: A Research Review

Vol. 2 No. 1January 2015 © 2015 Faculty of Science and Technology, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University GIS Application in Urban Traffic Air Pollution Exposure Study: A Research Review Amrit Kumar, Rajeev Kumar Mishra and S. K. Singh Department of Environmental Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi-110042, India *Corresponding Author: rajeevmishraiitr@gmail.com Abstract: This paper reports a preliminary study of the evaluation and forecast of transport-related air pollution dispersion in urban areas with the help of Geographic Information System (GIS) platform and a simulative system with graphical interface. The urban population growth, economic development, energy consumption, growing transportation demand and living standards play major role in pollution exposure in atmosphere. A lot of research has already been done to investigate the functional relationship between air quality and air pollution from transport. This study is an effort to develop a more flexible framework of model to find the exposure of the air pollution in the atmosphere. This review article describes the development of framework of different GIS inputs that help to find the exposure of vehicular pollution in megacity.