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Home / Development of Curriculum for Transportation-Related Air Pollution and Human 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

  • 1. Transportation and land-use planning
  • 2. Traffic measurement methods and data sources
  • 3. Traffic modeling methods and data sources

 

Transportation and land-use planning
1. Transportation and land-use planning
Traffic measurement methods and data sources
2. Traffic measurement methods and data sources
11. Traffic Modeling Methods and Data Sources
3. Traffic Modeling Methods and Data Sources

Introduction to Traffic Emissions Monitoring and Modeling

  • 1. Emission measurement / characterization methods and data sources 
  • 2. Emission modeling methods and data sources 
Emission measurement/characterization methods and data sources
1. Emission measurement / characterization methods and data sources
Emission modeling methods and data sources
2. Emission modeling methods and data sources

Introduction to Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling

  • 1. Air pollution measurement methods and data sources 
  • 2. Air pollution dispersion modeling methods and data sources 
  • 3. Photochemical modeling methods and data sources (coming soon!)
Air pollution measurement methods and data sources
1. Air pollution measurement methods and data sources
Air Pollution Dispersion Modeling Methods and Data Sources
2. Air Pollution Dispersion Modeling Methods and Data Sources

3

Exposure Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution

Introduction to Air Pollution Exposure Assessment

  • 1. Air pollution exposure 
  • 2. Air pollution exposure assessment methods
  • 3. Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods
Air Pollution Exposure
1. Air pollution exposure
Air pollution exposure assessment methods
2. Air pollution exposure assessment methods
Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods
3. Traffic-related air pollution exposure assessment methods

Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Methods

  • 1. Air pollution dispersion modeling
  • 2. Land-use regression modeling 
  • 3. Exposure surrogates 
  • 4. Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic
  • 5. Source apportionment and micro-environmental exposures (coming soon!)
  • 1. Air pollution dispersion modeling
  • Land-use regression modeling
    2. Land-use regression modeling
    Exposure surrogates
    3. Exposure surrogates

    4. 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

    • 1. Introduction to air pollution epidemiology 
    • 2. Observational descriptive epidemiological studies 
    • 3. Observational analytical epidemiological studies
    • 4. Experimental studies (coming soon!)
    • 5. Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations 
    • 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses 
    Introduction to air pollution epidemiology
    1. Introduction to air pollution epidemiology
    Observational descriptive epidemiological studies
    2. Observational descriptive epidemiological studies
    3. Observational analytical epidemiological studies

    Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations
    Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations
    Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
    6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses

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

    • 1. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence  
    • 2. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence 
    • 3. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence 
    • 4. Transferability of toxicological evidence and human relevance (coming soon!)
    • 5. Biomarkers including OMICS (genomics, proteomics, or metabolomics) of health effects associated with traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
    • 6. 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
    1. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence
    Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence
    2. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence
    Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence
    3. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence
    6. 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

    • 1. Qualitative health impact assessment 
    • 2. Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
    • 3. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1 
    • 4. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2  
    • 5. Reducing the impacts of traffic-related air pollution on health in policy and decision making 
    • 6. Differential burden of disease of traffic-related air pollution in sensitive sub-populations (coming soon!)
    Qualitative health impact assessment
    1. Qualitative health impact assessment
    Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
    2. Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
    Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1
    3. 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
    4. 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
    5. 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

    • 1. Transportation decision making — overview and process 
    • 2. Transportation decision making — tools and methods
    • 3. Option generation and policy selection 
    • 4. Option generation tools 
    • 5. Cost-effectiveness calculations and feasibility of policies (coming soon!)
    • 6. Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions
    • 7. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
    • 8. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution exposures (coming soon!)
    • 9. Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies (coming soon)
    • 10. Barriers and facilitators (coming soon!)
    • 11. Co-benefits
    Transportation decision making — overview and process
    1. Transportation decision making — overview and process
    2. Transportation decision making — tools and methods

    Option generation and policy selection
    3. Option generation and policy selection
    Option generation tools
    4. Option generation tools
    6. Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions (coming soon)

    9. Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies
    11. Co-benefits

    Emerging Technologies, Disruptors, and Market Solutions

    • 1. Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
    • 2. Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
    • 3. Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles 
    • 4. Alternative and emerging fuels
    • 5. Implications to environmental justice
    • 6. Market solutions (coming soon!)
    • 7. Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority? 
    Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
    1. Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
    Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
    2. Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
    Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles
    3. Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles
    Alternative and emerging fuels
    4. Alternative and emerging fuels
    Implications to environmental justice
    5. Implications to environmental justice
    Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority?
    7. 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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