Impact and uncertainty of a traffic management intervention: Population exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 394, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 244-251

  Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^a   Chalabi, Zaid ^a   Fletcher, Tony ^a   Grundy, Chris ^a   Leonardi, Giovanni S ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dispersion model; Environmental exposure; PAH; Parametric uncertainty; Spatial variability; Urban air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARCINOGENS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; URBAN PLANNING;

DISPERSION MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; PARAMETRIC UNCERTAINTY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; URBAN AIR POLLUTION;

STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL;

BENZO[A]PYRENE; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARCINOGEN; DISPERSION; PAH; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CALCULATOR; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MODEL; POPULATION EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESIDENTIAL AREA; TRAFFIC; UNCERTAINTY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZO(A)PYRENE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; UNCERTAINTY; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 40849116130     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2008.01.037     Document Type: Article

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