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Dublin Project Air View: Street-by-Street Air Quality Mapping

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A Street View car mapped every Dublin street, 50 million readings in all. The data went public; the one action named targets building sites, while the peer-reviewed analysis blames traffic.

Outcome🎯 Succeeded
Evidence🔬 Peer-reviewed
what does this mean?The strongest source behind this entry is an independent peer-reviewed or academic study. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →
Run byDublin City Council (Smart Dublin) with Google; sensor platform by Aclima
Scale🏙️ City-wide

Part of 1001 Smart Cities — 1,176 documented projects · 🏙️ 10 more in Dublin · 🌫️ Air quality guide · 🌱 Environment projects

From May 2021 to August 2022 Google's first electric Street View car, fitted with Aclima's mobile sensing platform, drove Dublin City's streets for Dublin City Council's Smart Dublin programme, measuring six pollutants — PM2.5, NO, NO2, CO, CO2 and ozone — every second. The council reports over 50 million measurements at 5 million locations over more than 30,000 km, with every street covered at least six times. It complements, not replaces, the fixed reference network the council runs with the Environmental Protection Agency. In February 2023 the council published the street-by-street maps on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer and the raw data under CC BY 4.0.

Completed 📅 2021–2022

📊 Impact

The regional air quality plan, prepared after a 2019 NO2 limit breach at St. Johns Road West, gave the campaign a citizen-engagement role: its action was a public dashboard of the results. At the launch the council's principal environmental health officer said construction sites showed up as PM2.5 spots and that, with the planning department, the council was putting very strict restrictions on housekeeping there. A peer-reviewed UCD and DCU analysis of one year of the drives found NO2 above the WHO 24-hour guideline on 49.4% of the sampling time, hotspots along the quays, O'Connell Street and Cork Street, and concluded that traffic is the dominant local contributor. No traffic measure has been documented as following from the maps.

🎓 Lesson

A mobile campaign turns a handful of fixed stations into a street-level picture, and Dublin opened all of it. But the plan that commissioned it assigned it to citizen engagement, and the only acted-on finding named at launch was building-site dust — the traffic NO2 that the independent analysis called urgent needs a lever the map itself does not have.

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Sources

↗ Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)Smart Dublin post of 13 February 2023 announcing the results: 16 months of measurement delivered in partnership with the City Council, with data from Google's first electric Street View car equipped with Aclima's mobile air sensing platform; over 50 million measurements at 5 million locations over more than 30,000 km (Lord Mayor's statement); six pollutants; overall air quality good against EU standards, with elevated NO2 along the Liffey quays; data on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer and Smart Dublin's open data platform, and to be used to inform environmental, climate and planning policy.
↗ Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator)Published 24 January 2023 · updated 19 June 2025National open data portal record published by Dublin City Council: driving mainly Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00 from May 2021 through August 2022, pollution measured at 1-second intervals, six pollutants, 1-second and roughly 50 m road-segment files, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, update frequency 'Never'.
↗ The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)Report on the launch. The council's principal environmental health officer Martin Fitzpatrick says the car went down every street at least six times, a median of 14 times; that the existing network with the EPA monitors at 26 locations and the project complements rather than replaces it; that the maps first show NO2 and PM2.5; and that elevated PM2.5 along roads by large development sites has led the council, with the planning department, to put 'very strict restrictions' on construction-site housekeeping. Notes elevated NO2 on the Liffey quays, Doyle's Corner in Phibsborough and busy approach roads.
↗ Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official)Published December 2021Plan of the four Dublin local authorities, signed December 2021, prepared because the annual NO2 limit was exceeded in 2019 at the St. Johns Road West station. Under Measure 12, Air Quality – Citizen Engagement, it describes the Airview project begun in May 2021 through the Dublin smart cities programme and sets the action 'Dublin City Council to establish public dashboard on Airview study results for Dublin City'.
↗ Chen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed)Published 10 September 2024Peer-reviewed study by UCD and DCU researchers of the Google Air View data from 6 May 2021 to 6 May 2022: daytime median NO2 of 28.4 µg/m3 exceeded the WHO 24-hour guideline in 49.4% of the sampling time and PM2.5 in 9%; highly polluted days account for 56.3% of total NO2, identifying local traffic as the dominant contributor to short-term NO2; hotspot mapping; the authors call for urgent mitigation of traffic NO2 in Dublin.
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↗ Aclima, Dublin launch post of May 2021 (vendor)Published 26 May 2021Post by the sensor supplier of 26 May 2021 announcing the Dublin launch: Aclima's measurement technology integrated in Google's first all-electric Street View car, a Jaguar I-PACE, producing hyperlocal air quality insights for Dublin City Council as part of Smart Dublin; Aclima supplies the instrumentation, data and analytics infrastructure.
↗ Dublin City Council, Real-Time Air Quality page (official)The council's standing page on its continuous real-time air quality data: stations of the national network managed with the Environmental Protection Agency, stations run by the EPA alone or with partners, and further stations set up by the council for local conditions.

📅 How old is the evidence?

Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: 2021–2022. 6 of 7 sources carry a publication date, from 26 May 2021 to 10 September 2024.

When the sources were published

  1. Aclima · vendorAclima, Dublin launch post of May 2021 (vendor)
  2. Dublin City Council · city governmentDublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official)
  3. Government of Ireland (data.gov.ie) · national governmentProject Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator) · updated 19 June 2025
  4. Smart Dublin · city governmentSmart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)
  5. The Irish Times · pressThe Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
  6. PubMed (U.S. National Library of Medicine) · researchChen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed)

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Evidence Passport · public beta 14 addressable claims, 7 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The passport is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.

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Claim 1 clm-2cf660d6b3a32f7c quantitative
From May 2021 to August 2022 Google's first electric Street View car, fitted with Aclima's mobile sensing platform, drove Dublin City's streets for Dublin City Council's Smart Dublin programme
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The dataset record dates the driving from May 2021 through August 2022; the council's launch post names Google's first electric Street View car with Aclima's platform, delivered with the Smart Dublin programme; the supplier's post confirms the May 2021 launch.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator)
  2. Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)
  3. Aclima, Dublin launch post of May 2021 (vendor)
Claim 2 clm-8480fe8fa7893918 quantitative
measuring six pollutants — PM2.5, NO, NO2, CO, CO2 and ozone — every second
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The dataset record lists the six pollutants and states the car measured pollution at 1-second intervals.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator)
Claim 3 clm-0c7e5d3f48cc3e8d quantitative
The council reports over 50 million measurements at 5 million locations over more than 30,000 km
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Stated by the Lord Mayor in the council's launch post.
Caveat
These are the council's own figures, not an independent count.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)
Claim 4 clm-3de4dd8150a2ec8e descriptive
with every street covered at least six times
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The council's principal environmental health officer told The Irish Times the car went down every street at least six times, a median of 14.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
Claim 5 clm-19aa46c089e37b8d descriptive
It complements, not replaces, the fixed reference network the council runs with the Environmental Protection Agency
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The officer says the project is not trying to supplant the network run with the EPA; the council's real-time page describes the national stations managed with the EPA.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
  2. Dublin City Council, Real-Time Air Quality page (official)
Claim 6 clm-fa3964d6ebbd9b0c quantitative
In February 2023 the council published the street-by-street maps on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer and the raw data under CC BY 4.0
Published field
snippet · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The launch post says all data is available on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer and Smart Dublin's open data platform; the dataset record states the CC BY 4.0 licence.
Caveat
The dataset record on the national portal is dated January 2023, a few weeks before the launch event.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)
  2. Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator)
Claim 7 clm-540623f6c661cdde quantitative
The regional air quality plan, prepared after a 2019 NO2 limit breach at St. Johns Road West, gave the campaign a citizen-engagement role: its action was a public dashboard of the results
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The plan was prepared because of the 2019 exceedance at St. Johns Road West; under Measure 12, Air Quality – Citizen Engagement, its action is for Dublin City Council to establish a public dashboard on the Airview results.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official)
Claim 8 clm-d747f7a04dd0ef1a quantitative
At the launch the council's principal environmental health officer said construction sites showed up as PM2.5 spots and that, with the planning department, the council was putting very strict restrictions on housekeeping there
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
Quoted from the officer: large development sites show spots of elevated PM2.5 along their roads, and the council with its planning colleagues is putting very strict restrictions on construction-site housekeeping.
Caveat
The officer's statement does not say how many sites were affected or whether the restrictions were new.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
Claim 9 clm-5f08bf1686694d8a quantitative
A peer-reviewed UCD and DCU analysis of one year of the drives found NO2 above the WHO 24-hour guideline on 49.4% of the sampling time
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The study covers 6 May 2021 to 6 May 2022 and reports NO2 exceeding the WHO 24-hour guideline in 49.4% of the one-year sampling time.
Caveat
The drives ran on weekdays in daytime, so the share describes daytime weekday conditions, not the full day.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Chen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed)
Claim 10 clm-82647d3f46cce635 descriptive
hotspots along the quays, O'Connell Street and Cork Street, and concluded that traffic is the dominant local contributor
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The study maps NO2 and PM2.5 hotspots and states that highly polluted days account for 56.3% of total NO2, highlighting local traffic as the dominant contributor to short-term NO2; the named streets come from the university's hotspot analysis.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Chen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed)
Claim 11 clm-4f2229b809889c84 descriptive
No traffic measure has been documented as following from the maps
Published field
impact · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
None of the listed sources names a traffic or road measure taken on the basis of the Air View maps; the plan assigns the project to citizen engagement and the launch statements speak of informing future policy.
Caveat
This is an absence in the sources consulted, not proof that the data was never used.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official)
  2. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
  3. Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator)
Claim 12 clm-c2f8782d2e46fa8b descriptive
A mobile campaign turns a handful of fixed stations into a street-level picture, and Dublin opened all of it
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The officer contrasts the fixed stations with street-level detail; the whole dataset is published under an open licence.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
  2. Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator)
Claim 13 clm-47cca1b78361f451 descriptive
the plan that commissioned it assigned it to citizen engagement, and the only acted-on finding named at launch was building-site dust
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The plan lists Airview under Measure 12, Citizen Engagement; the construction-site restrictions are the only action tied to the findings in the launch coverage.
Caveat
The campaign began before the plan was finalised; the plan adopted it rather than commissioning it from scratch.

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official)
  2. The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media)
Claim 14 clm-0674fa626ec44951 quantitative
the traffic NO2 that the independent analysis called urgent needs a lever the map itself does not have
Published field
lesson · verbatim
Mapping
mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says
The study concludes with the urgent need to mitigate traffic NO2 in Dublin.
Caveat
No claim-specific caveat recorded

Sources carrying this claim

  1. Chen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed)
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Governance facts carried by the record

Operator
Dublin City Council (Smart Dublin) with Google; sensor platform by Aclima
Actor types
city-government, private, research
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Not recorded
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7 source dossiers

Smart Dublin, results launch of 13 February 2023 (operator) smartdublin.ie · 4 linked claims

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Stable source ID
src-bcc132dc7653da6e
Publisher
Name not classified · smartdublin.ie
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-02-13
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

Smart Dublin post of 13 February 2023 announcing the results: 16 months of measurement delivered in partnership with the City Council, with data from Google's first electric Street View car equipped with Aclima's mobile air sensing platform; over 50 million measurements at 5 million locations over more than 30,000 km (Lord Mayor's statement); six pollutants; overall air quality good against EU standards, with elevated NO2 along the Liffey quays; data on Google's Environmental Insights Explorer and Smart Dublin's open data platform, and to be used to inform environmental, climate and planning policy.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Project Air View open dataset, data.gov.ie (operator) data.gov.ie · 4 linked claims

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID
src-5c40fb3d53f95d29
Publisher
Name not classified · data.gov.ie
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-01-24
Updated
2025-06-19
Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
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No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

National open data portal record published by Dublin City Council: driving mainly Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:00 from May 2021 through August 2022, pollution measured at 1-second intervals, six pollutants, 1-second and roughly 50 m road-segment files, licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, update frequency 'Never'.

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Claims linked
The Irish Times, 14 February 2023 (media) irishtimes.com · 6 linked claims

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src-ccc462af2403641c
Publisher
Name not classified · irishtimes.com
Type / language
web-page · language not classified
Published
2023-02-14
Updated
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Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
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Open the recorded source note

Report on the launch. The council's principal environmental health officer Martin Fitzpatrick says the car went down every street at least six times, a median of 14 times; that the existing network with the EPA monitors at 26 locations and the project complements rather than replaces it; that the maps first show NO2 and PM2.5; and that elevated PM2.5 along roads by large development sites has led the council, with the planning department, to put 'very strict restrictions' on construction-site housekeeping. Notes elevated NO2 on the Liffey quays, Doyle's Corner in Phibsborough and busy approach roads.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Dublin Region Air Quality Plan 2021 (official) dublincity.ie · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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src-d1f75605fe7e457e
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Name not classified · dublincity.ie
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pdf · language not classified
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Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Plan of the four Dublin local authorities, signed December 2021, prepared because the annual NO2 limit was exceeded in 2019 at the St. Johns Road West station. Under Measure 12, Air Quality – Citizen Engagement, it describes the Airview project begun in May 2021 through the Dublin smart cities programme and sets the action 'Dublin City Council to establish public dashboard on Airview study results for Dublin City'.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked
Chen et al., Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2024 (peer-reviewed) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · 3 linked claims

Open original source ↗

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src-1f0bb2c315ea7857
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Name not classified · pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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web-page · language not classified
Published
2024-09-10
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
Retrieved copy
No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

Peer-reviewed study by UCD and DCU researchers of the Google Air View data from 6 May 2021 to 6 May 2022: daytime median NO2 of 28.4 µg/m3 exceeded the WHO 24-hour guideline in 49.4% of the sampling time and PM2.5 in 9%; highly polluted days account for 56.3% of total NO2, identifying local traffic as the dominant contributor to short-term NO2; hotspot mapping; the authors call for urgent mitigation of traffic NO2 in Dublin.

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Claims linked
Aclima, Dublin launch post of May 2021 (vendor) aclima.earth · 1 linked claim

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web-page · language not classified
Published
2021-05-26
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Source last checked
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Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
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Locator
Open the recorded source note

Post by the sensor supplier of 26 May 2021 announcing the Dublin launch: Aclima's measurement technology integrated in Google's first all-electric Street View car, a Jaguar I-PACE, producing hyperlocal air quality insights for Dublin City Council as part of Smart Dublin; Aclima supplies the instrumentation, data and analytics infrastructure.

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Claims linked
Dublin City Council, Real-Time Air Quality page (official) dublincity.ie · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

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Name not classified · dublincity.ie
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web-page · language not classified
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Not recorded
Updated
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Source last checked
No source-level check date
Record last verified
2026-09-25
Dossier created
2026-09-25
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No local capture recorded
Archive
No archived copy linked
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No captured content hash
Locator
Open the recorded source note

The council's standing page on its continuous real-time air quality data: stations of the national network managed with the Environmental Protection Agency, stations run by the EPA alone or with partners, and further stations set up by the council for local conditions.

Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Dublin Project Air View: Street-by-Street Air Quality Mapping” — Dublin, Ireland. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/dublin-air-quality-mapping/ (last verified 2026-09-25). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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