Life cycle air quality impacts of conventional and alternative light-duty transportation in the United States

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 52, 2014, Pages 18490-18495

  Tessum, Christopher W ^a   Hill, Jason D ^b   Marshall, Julian D ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectricity; Externality; LCA; Pollution; Spatial

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; BIODIESEL; BIOFUEL; COAL; COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS; GASOLINE; NATURAL GAS; OZONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WATER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL MINING; COMBUSTION; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ELECTRIC VEHICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EVALUATION STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYBRID; LIFE CYCLE; LIGHT DUTY TRANSPORTATION; LIQUID; METEOROLOGY; MOTOR VEHICLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR RADIATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES; WIND; CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MALE; RENEWABLE ENERGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ZEA MAYS;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BIOFUELS; FEMALE; GASOLINE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OZONE; RENEWABLE ENERGY; TRANSPORTATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924352889     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406853111     Document Type: Article

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