ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the sport stadium as a microenvironment and understand attendees' exposure levels to selected air pollutants. It shows how air pollutants such as ozone, carbon monoxide, and particulate matter can be measured at a stadium and its tailgating lots. The chapter also shows that findings of air pollution overall and within tailgating areas at collegiate football games. It suggests that practical implications related to air pollution reduction actions and managerial changes. The chapter describes the methodology to measure air pollution in an outside stadium and its associated tailgate areas. The term tailgating is derived from the use of truck tailgates as gathering spaces for sharing food and drink with friends, family members, and fellow fans in a communal experience before events. Tailgating usually happens many hours before the events and sometimes even after. The stationary monitors recorded air quality three hours before the game, at the time of kickoff, and three hours post-game.
