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Dear Mr Parnham,

Thank you for your request of 31 July 2023 which you asked for the
following information:

Recently, traffic monitoring equipment has starting appearing in odd
locations around Oxford, including dead end roads around Garsington Road
and on side road junctions (such a Divinity road), where traffic is likely
to pass over the sensors at slow speeds.

There is also at least one unaccounted for pollution monitoring sensors -
notably one towards the bottom of Headington Hill, near the entrance to
Headington Hill Park car park (not under the footbridge - that one's
accounted for).

I am curious about what these sensors are measuring, and in support of
which policies. Please therefore provide me with:

a) any installation schedules / times of operations of traffic monitoring
exercises conducted by OCC since the start of 2023 within Oxford city -
APRN / pressure sensor or otherwise.  I am particularly interested the
location, timing and duration installed of sensors used to evaluate
current / planned LTNs or traffic filters.

b) the same in relation to any new pollution monitoring stations around
Oxford city installed in 2023 - especially any new monitoring stations
that not feature in the city council's 2022 pollution monitoring report. I
want to know when these stations were installed, where, and for how long
they will be in operation - especially if they will be used to help
evaluate current/ future LTN or traffic filter locations.

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at the top of this email.

Kind regards,

Renata

Renata Malinowski

Freedom of Information Support Officer

Voice of the Customer Team

Customers and Organisational Development

Oxfordshire County Council

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Our reference: 21986 EIR

Dear Mr Parnham,

Thank you for your request of 31 July 2023 which you asked for the
following information:

Recently, traffic monitoring equipment has started appearing in odd
locations around Oxford, including dead end roads around Garsington Road
and on side road junctions (such a Divinity Road), where traffic is likely
to pass over the sensors at slow speeds.

There is also at least one unaccounted for pollution monitoring sensors -
notably one towards the bottom of Headington Hill, near the entrance to
Headington Hill Park car park (not under the footbridge - that one's
accounted for).

I am curious about what these sensors are measuring, and in support of
which policies. Please therefore provide me with:

 a. any installation schedules / times of operations of traffic monitoring
exercises conducted by OCC since the start of 2023 within Oxford city
- APRN / pressure sensor or otherwise.  I am particularly interested
the location, timing and duration installed of sensors used to
evaluate current / planned LTNs or traffic filters.

Please find attached Excel spreadsheet titled, ‘Oxford City Surveys 2023
(adhoc).xlsx’.

b) the same in relation to any new pollution monitoring stations around
Oxford city installed in 2023 - especially any new monitoring stations
that do not feature in the city council's 2022 pollution monitoring
report. I want to know when these stations were installed, where, and for
how long they will be in operation - especially if they will be used to
help evaluate current/ future LTN or traffic filter locations.

Oxfordshire County Council Public Health team now has a fleet of air
quality sensors at various Primary School sites across the county as part
of a monitoring project, which has been in place since May 2022. This is
an opportunity for us to assess changes in air quality at school streets
intervention sites and/or new 20mph zones, against control sites where no
interventions are in place. The Oxford-based monitoring locations are as
follows:

St Ebbe’s Primary School

Larkrise Primary School

Sandhills Primary School

Tyndale Community School

Windmill Primary School

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Yours sincerely,

Richard Bowman

Technical Officer Transport Monitoring

Environment and Place

Oxfordshire County Council

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