Curriculum developed under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act
We developed a unique, cross-disciplinary course titled “Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Human Health.”
The outline and key topics of the course, which include 60 lectures covering the full-chain between traffic activity and human health, were developed over 30 iterations.
The 60 lectures fall under the following categories:
- Basics of Air Quality, Standards, and Related Regulations
- Monitoring and Modeling of Traffic Related Air Pollution
- Exposure Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
- Health Impacts of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
- Health Impact and Burden of Disease Assessment
- Policies, Technologies, and Air Quality Improvement Approaches
The course is designed to equip participants with cutting-edge knowledge and the skill sets required to understand, assess, and quantify road traffic, traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), human exposures, biological mechanisms, associated health effects, and population-based impacts, including their costs. Further, the course explores the role of current knowledge in regulation and real-world policy-making and practice.
The course is intended to form the basis for a three-credit-hour graduate-level course to be offered by consortium member institutions and targeted at students and practitioners in various areas including urban and transportation planning and policy, civil and transportation engineering, geography, epidemiology, and public health. The individual lectures are also designed to stand alone and can be mixed and matched to be transferable to other locations and purposes.
So far, the following outputs resulted directly from, or were developed by building on, this effort:
(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
