Bharathi Boppana

Dr. Bharathi Boppana


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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15 May 2023 in Environmental Fluid Mechanics
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BBBharathi Boppana
Bharathi Boppana
VNVinh-Tan Nguyen
Vinh-Tan Nguyen
DWDaniel J. Wise
Daniel J. Wise
JLJason Yu Chuan Leong
Jason Yu Chuan Leong

24 November 2022 in arXiv
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KHKong Yuan Ho
Kong Yuan Ho
CLChin Seng Lim
Chin Seng Lim
MKMatthena A. Kattar
Matthena A. Kattar
BBBharathi Boppana
Bharathi Boppana
LYLiya Yu
Liya Yu
COChinchun Ooi
Chinchun Ooi
Traffic emissions are known to contribute significantly to air pollution around the world, especially in heavily urbanized cities such as Singapore. It has been previously shown that the particulate pollution along major roadways exhibit strong correlation with increased traffic during peak hours, and that reductions in traffic emissions can lead to better health outcomes. However, in many instances, obtaining proper counts of vehicular traffic remains manual and extremely laborious. This then restricts one's ability to carry out longitudinal monitoring for extended periods, for example, when trying to understand the efficacy of intervention measures such as new traffic regulations (e.g. car-pooling) or for computational modelling. Hence, in this study, we propose and implement an integrated machine learning pipeline that utilizes traffic images to obtain vehicular counts that can be easily integrated with other measurements to facilitate various studies. We verify the utility and accuracy of this pipeline on an open-source dataset of traffic images obtained for a location in Singapore and compare the obtained vehicular counts with collocated particulate measurement data obtained over a 2-week period in 2022. The roadside particulate emission is observed to correlate well with obtained vehicular counts with a correlation coefficient of 0.93, indicating that this method can indeed serve as a quick and effective correlate of particulate emissions.