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Status of Air Quality during Normal and Car Free Day in Universiti Malaysia
Terengganu
Ungku Nur Huda Binti YM U Iskandar
Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Marzuki bin Ismail
Co Supervisor: Dr. Samsuri bin Abdullah
Bachelor of Technology (Environment)
School of Ocean Engineering
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu
Air pollution is one of the most important environmental and public health issues.
Thus, Car-Free Day has been initiated in Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) in line
of reducing the emissions from motor vehicles in the campus as motor vehicles are
the major contributor towards air pollution. Hence, this study aims at determining the
effectiveness of implementing Car-Free Day towards the air quality status in UMT.
Data was collected for parameters namely Carbon Monoxide (CO), Carbon Dioxide
(CO2) and Particulate Matter (PM10) in every 5 minutes interval for 9 hours which
covered both academic and administration zones. Data was analyzed in terms of
temporal and spatial distribution by using Boxplot and Surfer 12. The result shows
that there exists statistically significant different (P