Air pollution and health risks due to vehicle traffic

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 450-451, Issue , 2013, Pages 307-316

  Zhang, Kai ^a   Batterman, Stuart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestion; Morbidity; Mortality; NO2; Risk assessment; Traffic related air pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION IMPACT; CONGESTION; INCREMENTAL ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS; SPEED-VOLUME RELATIONSHIPS; TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION;

AIR QUALITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NITROGEN OXIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAVEL TIME; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); HEALTH RISK; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXHAUST GAS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HEALTH HAZARD; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84875342000     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.01.074     Document Type: Article

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