Allegheny County PA

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Allegheny County PA
Allegheny County Courthouse.jpg
Allegheny County Courthouse
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Allegheny County PA Map
Type of Municipality County
Date Established September 24, 1788
Area 745 sq.mi745 sqmi <br />745 sq_mi <br />1,929.543 sq.km <br />476,800 Acres <br />
Elevation 1129ft344.119 m <br />
Population 12505781,250,578 people <br />
Timezone EST
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Allegheny County is located in the southwest of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,250,578, making it the state's second-most populous county, following Philadelphia County. The county seat is Pittsburgh.[2] Allegheny County is included in the Pittsburgh, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area, and in the Pittsburgh Designated Market Area.

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Sensors-RAMPS.jpg Low-cost Air Quality Monitoring RAMPs in Pittsburgh PA
The proposed project will deploy 30 Real Time, Multi-Pollutant Sensors (RAMPs) at traffic intersections currently managed by the Scalable Urban Traffic Control (SURTRAC) Intelligent Traffic control system, an adaptive traffic control system that optimizes traffic flows in the East Liberty corridor of Pittsburgh (see figure below). These RAMP sensors are portable, low-cost sensors for gaseous air pollutants and particulate matter (PM) that have been developed at Carnegie Mellon and will be mounted on utility poles, using the access already provided by SURTRAC for their equipment.

The existing SURTRAC architecture in East Liberty provides an important platform to study urban air quality through unprecedented approaches that could be replicated across city neighborhoods and which could eventually be scaled across the Pittsburgh metropolitan region. No other system like this currently exists.

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