Development of CARTEEH Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health

CARTEEH developed a unique, cross-disciplinary course titled “Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Emissions, Human Exposures, and Health.”

The outline and key topics of the course, which include 60 lectures covering the full-chain between traffic activity and human health, were developed over 30 iterations.

The 60 lectures fall under the following categories:

1. Basics of Air Quality, Emissions Standards, and Environmental Regulations
2. Monitoring and Modeling of Traffic Related Air Pollution
3. Exposure Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
4. Health Impacts of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
5. Health Impact and Burden of Disease Assessment
6. Policies, Technologies, and Mitigation Approaches

The course is designed to equip participants with cutting-edge knowledge and the skill sets required to understand, assess, and quantify road traffic, vehicle emissions, traffic-related air pollution (TRAP), human exposures, biological mechanisms, associated health effects, and population-based impacts, including their distribution and societal costs. Further, the course explores the role of current knowledge in environmental regulation and real-world policy-making and practice.

The course is intended to form the basis for a three-credit-hour graduate-level course to be offered by consortium member institutions and targeted at students and practitioners in various areas including urban and transportation planning and policy, civil and transportation engineering, geography, environmental sciences and epidemiology, and public health. The individual lectures are also designed to stand alone, and can be mixed and matched to be transferable to other locations and other purposes.

So far, the following outputs resulted directly from, or were developed by building on, this effort:

 

 

(PI):

Haneen Khreis, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Project Information:

Phase I Start Date: September 1, 2017
Phase I End Date: November 31, 2019
Status: Completed

Phase II Start Date: November 31, 2019
Phase II End Date: March 31, 2021
Status: Active

Grant Number: 69A3551747128
Source Organization: CARTEEH UTC
Project Number: 608101-00502

CARTEEH Focus Area:

Transportation Systems
Emissions and Energy Estimation
Exposure and Health Impacts
Policy and Decision Making
Data Integration

Sponsor:

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC 20590 United States

Performing Organization:

Texas A&M Transportation Institute
Texas A&M University System
1111 RELLIS PARKWAY, Bryan, TX 77807