The monitoring programme (known as AQMN Work Package 1 (WP1)) has been running for almost 12 months, with monitoring across the 500+ sites having commenced in January 2022. The project is expected to run for two years.
Monitoring was successfully installed at 105 stations at the end of 2021. The stations involved in the monitoring programme span as far north as Newcastle, east as far as Norwich, south as far Plymouth and west to Holyhead. Monitoring was set up at a variety of location types including platforms, concourse and waiting areas and background sites, to help build a better understanding of existing air quality at GB rail stations.
For the successful running of the monitoring programme, Air Quality Consultants trained local rail staff on how to undertake the monthly changeover of tubes. Over the last 12 months a dedicated team of staff have been communicating with stations and the laboratory who provide and analyse the tubes, to ensure high quality in the monitoring dataset. This has involved ensuring the sites themselves remain in good condition and that the tubes are being deployed correctly, ensuring equipment arrives at the stations on time for the agreed changeover dates, that changeovers happen on time, and that records are completed correctly and returned to the laboratory for analysis. Alongside this, AQC has undertaken a preliminary validation of the monthly results, which are due to be processed and analysed in early 2023 (once 12 months of results have been received).
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