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  • Air Quality Monitoring
  • Exposure Science

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  • Quantifying individual exposure to traffic-related air pollutants (TRAP) is crucial for health studies.
  • Traditional methods include proximity to roads, surrogate markers, and modeling (e.g., land use regression - LUR).
  • Hopanes, specific markers of combustion engine emissions, offer a novel approach for personal exposure assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate children's personal exposure to TRAP using hopanes as a direct marker.
  • To assess the performance of common TRAP exposure proxies against personal hopane measurements.
  • To identify potential seasonal biases in TRAP exposure assessment methods.

Main Methods:

  • Collected weekly integrated filters from children in a personal exposure study in Windsor, Canada.
  • Measured hopane concentrations on filters as a marker of personal TRAP exposure.
  • Compared personal hopane data with land use regression (LUR) models and road proximity metrics.

Main Results:

  • Personal hopane exposures showed moderate to strong correlations with LUR estimates in summer (r = 0.41-0.74).
  • Road proximity (major roadways within 500m) was more strongly associated with summer personal hopane exposures than LUR models.
  • Both LUR estimates and road proximity metrics showed poor correlation with personal hopanes during winter.

Conclusions:

  • Traditional TRAP exposure proxies, including LUR models and road density, may lead to significant exposure misclassification, particularly between seasons (summer vs. winter).
  • Road proximity metrics appear more reliable than LUR for estimating personal TRAP exposure, especially for long-term assessments.
  • These findings highlight the limitations of current proxy methods for children's TRAP exposure, with implications for developmental health studies.