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More interest has been shown regarding air quality and health in Göteborg as a result of the increasing information people have been given regarding air quality. There is now a demand from the general public for real time air quality information. Especially for asthmatic and older people, it is important to provide daily air quality information and forecasts. Such information is supplied in terms of a local air quality index for the city centre in Göteborg.

Information is supplied on the Internet http://www.miljo.goteborg.se/luftnet/index-eng.htm. The data is updated every hour throughout the year and a forecast is given by the arrows behind the status value (figure). All data is from Göteborgs urban background monitoring station. For the people that don’t have access to the Internet a message to an answer machine is read. The message is updated three times a day, morning, noon and afternoon at weekdays and twice on the weekends. The public can also get the information on their cell phone through the wap services (figure), http://www.miljo.goteborg.se/luftnet/wap. This data is also updated every hour. The local traffic radio uses the website every day and report in the morning and afternoon about the pollution levels in central Göteborg. One person is on-call duty and answers the questions from the public.

Last Updated

13th January 2005