Mobile phone tracking: In support of modelling traffic-related air pollution contribution to individual exposure and its implications for public health impact assessment

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Hai Ying ^a   Skjetne, Erik ^b   Kobernus, Mike ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR AIR RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Citizen participation; Health impact assessment; Individual exposure; Mobile phone tracking; Public health; Social network; Traffic related air pollution

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; DISPERSION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEALTH IMPACT; LAND USE PLANNING; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MOBILE COMMUNICATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLLUTION POLICY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORK; TRACKING; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN CLIMATE; URBAN POPULATION;

DISPERSION; EMPIRICISM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; MOBILE PHONE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; VELOCITY; AIR POLLUTANT; DEVICES; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CELL PHONES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; URBAN HEALTH; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84888335490     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-93     Document Type: Review

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