Vehicle emissions during children's school commuting: Impacts of education policy

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1537-1543

  Marshall, Julian D ^a   Wilson, Ryan D ^a   Meyer, Katie L ^a   Rajangam, Santhosh K ^b   Mcdonald, Noreen C ^c   Wilson, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b University of Minnesota   (United States)

^c The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUS SERVICES; DATA SETS; EDUCATION POLICIES; HEALTH IMPACT; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; SCHOOL CHOICE; SCHOOL ENROLLMENT; SELECTION CRITERIA; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; TRANSPORT MODES; TRAVEL DISTANCE; TRAVEL MODES; TRAVEL SURVEYS; VEHICLE EMISSION;

BUSES; EDUCATION; SURVEYS; TRANSPORTATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

BUS TRANSPORT; CHILD HEALTH; EDUCATION POLICY; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; BUDGET; CAR; CHILD; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SITING; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; TRAVEL; WALKING;

AUTOMOBILES; CHILD; EDUCATION; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOLS; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; WALKING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 77749295474     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es902932n     Document Type: Article

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