Curriculum Presentations:
1
Basics of Air Quality, Emissions Standards, and Environmental Regulations
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- 1. Air quality and air pollution
- 2. Traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
- 3. Other transportation-related emissions and air pollution
- 4. Air quality standards and health
- 5. Air quality monitoring and use in compliance determination
- 6. Vehicle emission standards and underlying evidence base (coming soon!)
- 7. History of key laws and regulations and quantifiable impacts (coming soon!)
- 8. Environmental justice (coming soon!)
2
Monitoring and Modeling of Traffic Related Air Pollution
Introduction to Traffic Monitoring and Modeling
- 1. Transportation and land-use planning (coming soon!)
- 2. Traffic measurement methods and data sources
- 3. Traffic modeling methods and data sources (coming soon!)
Introduction to Traffic Emissions Monitoring and Modeling
Introduction to Air Pollution Monitoring and Modeling
- 1. Air pollution measurement methods and data sources
- 2. Air pollution dispersion modeling methods and data sources
- 3. Photochemical modeling methods and data sources (coming soon!)
3
Exposure Assessment of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Introduction to Air Pollution Exposure Assessment
Air Pollution Exposure Assessment Methods
- 1. Air pollution dispersion modeling (coming soon!)
- 2. Land-use regression modeling
- 3. Exposure surrogates
- 4. Personal monitoring in exposure assessment and the contribution of traffic (coming soon!)
- 5. Source apportionment and micro-environmental exposures (coming soon!)
4
Health Impacts of Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Epidemiological Studies, Designs, and Need for Exposure Indices
- 1. Introduction to air pollution epidemiology
- 2. Observational descriptive epidemiological studies
- 3. Observational analytical epidemiological studies (coming soon!)
- 4. Experimental studies (coming soon!)
- 5. Prevalence, incidence, and measures of associations
- 6. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses
Evidence of the Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure on Human Health
- 1. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—well-established evidence
- 2. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—emerging evidence
- 3. Effects of traffic-related air pollution on human health—toxicological and mechanistic evidence
- 4. Transferability of toxicological evidence and human relevance (coming soon!)
- 5. Biomarkers including OMICS (genomics, proteomics, or metabolomics) of health effects associated with traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
- 6. Sensitive subpopulations (children, the elderly, the ill, and lower socioeconomic classes) and differential health effects in sensitive subpopulations (coming soon!)
5
Health Impact and Burden of Disease Assessment
- 1. Qualitative health impact assessment
- 2. Quantitative health impact and burden of disease assessment
- 3. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 1
- 4. Undertaking health impact and burden of disease assessment of traffic-related air pollution—Part 2
- 5. Reducing the impacts of traffic-related air pollution on health in policy and decision making
- 6. Differential burden of disease of traffic-related air pollution in sensitive sub-populations (coming soon!)
6
Policies, Technologies, and Mitigation Approaches
Policies, Strategies, and Effectiveness
- 1. Transportation decision making — overview and process
- 2. Transportation decision making — tools and methods (coming soon!)
- 3. Option generation and policy selection
- 4. Option generation tools
- 5. Cost-effectiveness calculations and feasibility of policies (coming soon!)
- 6. Policies to mitigate traffic-related emissions (coming soon!)
- 7. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution (coming soon!)
- 8. Policies to mitigate traffic-related air pollution exposures (coming soon!)
- 9. Overlap with sustainable transportation and built environment policies (coming soon!)
- 10. Barriers and facilitators (coming soon!)
- 11. Co-benefits (coming soon!)
Emerging Technologies, Disruptors, and Market Solutions
- 1. Alternative and emerging technologies — connected and automated vehicles
- 2. Alternative and emerging technologies — shared mobility
- 3. Alternative and emerging technologies — zero and near-zero emission vehicles
- 4. Alternative and emerging fuels
- 5. Implications to environmental justice
- 6. Market solutions (coming soon!)
- 7. Concluding inspirational talk—How do we make health a priority?
(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
