Study protocol
Mobile Air Quality Studies (MAQS)-an international project
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* Corresponding author: Cristian Scutaru cristian.scutaru@charite.de
1 Department of Environmental and Traffic Medicine, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2 Department of Informatics, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
3 Fachhochschule Senftenberg, Senftenberg, Germany
4 Respiratory Disease Center, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan
5 Laser Centre, Potsdam, Germany
6 Department of Allergy, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
7 Institute of Occupational Medicine, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
8 Department of Toxicology, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
9 Chest Hospital Löwenstein, Löwenstein, Germany
10 Department of Sports Medicine, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
11 Pariser Street Outpatient Clincis, Berlin, Germany
12 Department of Health Management, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
13 Chest Department Heckeshorn, Helios-Emil-von-Behring-Hospital, Berlin, Germany
14 Department of Occupational Psychology, The Institute of Occupational Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
15 Department of Surgery, Helios-Emil-von-Behring-Hospital, Berlin, Germany
16 Rheumaklinik Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany
17 Faculty of Medicine, University of Sanaa, Yemen
18 Ruppiner Kliniken, Neuruppin, Germany
19 Department of Respiratory Medicine, Centre of Medicine, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
20 Department of Cell Biology, Mivenion Inc., Berlin, Germany
21 AMZ, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
22 Al-Assaf University Hospital, Lattakia, Syria
23 General Hospital, Freising, Germany
24 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
25 Faculty of Medicine, Tishreen University, Lattakia, Syria
26 Department of Medicine, Park-Klinik Weissensee, Berlin, Germany
27 Department of Neurology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
28 Department of Surgery, Dominikus-Hospital, Berlin, Germany
29 Occupational Medicine, TUV, Berlin, Germany
30 Strategy Centre for Health, Health Care Campus North Rhine Westphalia, Bochum, Germany
31 Chest Clinics Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany
32 Unfallkrankenkaus Marzahn, Berlin, Germany
33 Hospital Luckenwalde, Luckenwalde, Germany
34 Institute for Allergy and Asthma Research, Berlin, Germany
35 Otto-Heubner-Centre, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
36 Faculty of Biology, University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
37 Department of Medicine, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
38 Occupational Medicine Service, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
39 Fujian First College of Medicine, Fujian, PR China
40 Division of Applied Cachexia Research and Center for Cardiovascular Research, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Medical School of the Freie University Berlin and the Humboldt-University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
41 Institute and Outpatient Clinic of Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
42 Dept of Allergology & Clinical Immunology, Mother Theresa School of Medicine, Tirana, Albania
Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2010, 5:8 doi:10.1186/1745-6673-5-8
Published: 9 April 2010Abstract
Due to an increasing awareness of the potential hazardousness of air pollutants, new laws, rules and guidelines have recently been implemented globally. In this respect, numerous studies have addressed traffic-related exposure to particulate matter using stationary technology so far. By contrast, only few studies used the advanced technology of mobile exposure analysis. The Mobile Air Quality Study (MAQS) addresses the issue of air pollutant exposure by combining advanced high-granularity spatial-temporal analysis with vehicle-mounted, person-mounted and roadside sensors. The MAQS-platform will be used by international collaborators in order 1) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to road structure, 2) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to traffic density, 3) to assess air pollutant exposure in relation to weather conditions, 4) to compare exposure within vehicles between front and back seat (children) positions, and 5) to evaluate "traffic zone"-exposure in relation to non-"traffic zone"-exposure.
Primarily, the MAQS-platform will focus on particulate matter. With the establishment of advanced mobile analysis tools, it is planed to extend the analysis to other pollutants including NO2, SO2, nanoparticles and ozone.