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Home / Development of Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health / Development of CARTEEH Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health – Phase II

Development of CARTEEH Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health – Phase II

Curriculum Presentations:

1

Basics of Air Quality, Emissions Standards, and Environmental Regulations

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  • Air quality and air pollution
  • Traffic-related air pollution
  • Other transportation-related emissions and air pollution
  • Air quality standards and health
  • Air quality monitoring and use in compliance determination
  • Vehicle emission standards and underlying evidence base
  • Environmental justice
Air Quality and Air Pollution (1. Basics of Air Pollution, Air Quality, and Vehicle Emission Standards and Environmental Regulation)
Air Quality and Air Pollution
Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Other Transportation-related Emissions and Air Pollution
Other Transportation-related Emissions and Air Pollution
Air Quality Standards and Health
Air Quality Standards and Health
Air quality monitoring and use in compliance determination
Air quality monitoring and use in compliance determination
Vehicle emission standards and underlying evidence base
Environmental Justice

2

Monitoring and Modeling of Traffic Related Air Pollution

Introduction to Traffic Monitoring and Modeling

  • Transportation and land-use planning
  • Traffic measurement methods and data sources
  • Traffic modeling methods and data sources

 

Transportation and land-use planning
Transportation and Land-Use Planning
Traffic Measurement Methods and Data Sources
11. Traffic Modeling Methods and Data Sources
Traffic Modeling Methods and Data Sources

Introduction to Traffic Emissions Monitoring and Modeling

  • Emission measurement/ characterization methods and data sources 
  • Emission modeling methods and data sources 
Emission measurement/characterization methods and data sources
Emission measurement / characterization methods and data sources
Emission modeling methods and data sources
Emission modeling methods and data sources

Introduction to Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling

  • Air pollution measurement methods and data sources 
  • Air pollution dispersion modeling methods and data sources
Air pollution measurement methods and data sources
Air pollution measurement methods and data sources
Air Pollution Dispersion Modeling Methods and Data Sources
Air Pollution Dispersion Modeling Methods and Data Sources

3

Exposure Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution

Introduction to Air Pollution Exposure Assessment

  • Air pollution exposure 
  • Air pollution exposure assessment methods
  • Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods
Air Pollution Exposure
Air pollution exposure
Air pollution exposure assessment methods
Air pollution exposure assessment methods
Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods
Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods

Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Methods

  • Air pollution dispersion modeling
  • Land-use regression modeling 
  • Exposure surrogates 
  • Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic
Air pollution dispersion modeling
Land-use regression modeling
Land-use regression modeling
Exposure surrogates
Exposure surrogates
Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic

4

Health Impacts of Traffic-Related Air Pollution

Epidemiological Studies, Designs, and Need for Exposure Indices

  • Introduction to air pollution epidemiology 
  • Observational descriptive epidemiological studies 
  • Observational analytical epidemiological studies
  • Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations 
  • Systematic reviews and meta-analyses 
Introduction to air pollution epidemiology
Introduction to air pollution epidemiology
Observational descriptive epidemiological studies
Observational descriptive epidemiological studies
Observational analytical epidemiological studies
Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations
Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

Evidence of the Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure on Human Health

  • Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence  
  • Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence 
  • Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence 
  • Sensitive subpopulations (children, the elderly, the ill, and lower socioeconomic classes) and differential health effects in sensitive subpopulations
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence
Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence
Sensitive subpopulations (children, the elderly, the ill, and lower socioeconomic classes) and differential health effects in sensitive subpopulations

5

Health Impact and Burden of Disease Assessment

  • Qualitative health impact assessment 
  • Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
  • Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1 
  • Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2  
  • Reducing the impacts of traffic-related air pollution on health in policy and decision making 
Qualitative health impact assessment
Qualitative health impact assessment
Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1
Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1
Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2
Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2
Reducing the Impacts of Traffic-related Air-Pollution: Including Health in Policy and Decision-Making
Reducing the Impacts of Traffic-related Air-Pollution: Including Health in Policy and Decision-Making

6

Policies, Technologies, and Mitigation Approaches

Policies, Strategies, and Effectiveness

  • Transportation decision making — overview and process 
  • Transportation decision making — tools and methods
  • Option generation and policy selection 
  • Option generation tools 
  • Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions
  • Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies
  • Co-benefits
Transportation decision making — overview and process
Transportation decision making — overview and process
Transportation decision making — tools and methods
Option generation and policy selection
Option generation and policy selection
Option generation tools
Option generation tools
Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions
Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies
Co-benefits

Emerging Technologies, Disruptors, and Market Solutions

  • Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
  • Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
  • Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles 
  • Alternative and emerging fuels
  • Implications to environmental justice
  • Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority? 
Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles
Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles
Alternative and emerging fuels
Alternative and emerging fuels
Implications to environmental justice
Implications to environmental justice
Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority?
Concluding inspirational talk— How do we make health a priority?

(PI):

Haneen Khreis, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Project Information:

Phase I Start Date: September 1, 2017
Phase I End Date: November 31, 2019
Status: Completed

Phase II Start Date: November 31, 2019
Phase II End Date: March 31, 2021
Status: Active

Grant Number: 69A3551747128
Source Organization: CARTEEH UTC
Project Number: 608101-00502

CARTEEH Focus Area:

Transportation Systems
Emissions and Energy Estimation
Exposure and Health Impacts
Policy and Decision Making
Data Integration

Sponsor:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC 20590 United States

Performing Organization:

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
1111 RELLIS PARKWAY, Bryan, TX 77807

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