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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Environmental and Public Health Volume 2010, Article ID 625461, 10 pages doi:10.1155/2010/625461 Research Article Time-Location Patterns of a Population Living in an Air Pollution Hotspot Xiangmei (May) Wu,1, 2 Zhihua (Tina) Fan,1, 3 and Pamela Ohman-Strickland1, 4 1 Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute (EOHSI), University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA 2 Department of Public Health, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA 3 Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, UMDNJ, NJ 08854, USA 4 Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, UMDNJ, NJ 08854, USA Correspondence should be addressed to Zhihua (Tina) Fan, zfan@ Received 26 June 2009; Revised 2 November 2009; Accepted 8 February 2010 Academic Editor: Stuart A. Batterman Copyright © 2010 Xiangmei (May) Wu et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This study characterized the time-location pattern of 107 residents living in air pollution hotspots, the Waterfront South and Copewood/Davis Streets communities in Camden, NJ. Most residents in the two communities are minority and impoverished individuals. Results showed that employment status played the fundamental role in determining time-location patterns of this study population, and the variations of time-location pattern by season and by day-type were partially attributed to employment status. Compared to the National Human Activity Pattern Survey, the Camden cohort spent significantly more time outdoors