Download or read book Identifying Urban Designs and Traffic Management Strategies for Southern California that Reduce Air Pollution Exposure written by Suzanne Paulson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Transportation Land Use Air Quality Connection written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traffic Related Air Pollution written by Haneen Khreis and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic-Related Air Pollution synthesizes and maps TRAP and its impact on human health at the individual and population level. The book analyzes mitigating standards and regulations with a focus on cities. It provides the methods and tools for assessing and quantifying the associated road traffic emissions, air pollution, exposure and population-based health impacts, while also illuminating the mechanisms underlying health impacts through clinical and toxicological research. Real-world implications are set alongside policy options, emerging technologies and best practices. Finally, the book recommends ways to influence discourse and policy to better account for the health impacts of TRAP and its societal costs. Overviews existing and emerging tools to assess TRAP’s public health impacts Examines TRAP’s health effects at the population level Explores the latest technologies and policies--alongside their potential effectiveness and adverse consequences--for mitigating TRAP Guides on how methods and tools can leverage teaching, practice and policymaking to ameliorate TRAP and its effects
Download or read book Air Pollution and City Planning Findings recommendations explanation written by University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Environmental Science and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Data Driven Approaches to Evaluating Traffic Related Air Pollution Exposure and Health Impacts in California USA written by Jonathan Zhong Liu and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Automobile traffic has been a longstanding source of air pollution in human communities. The target of major regulations in the past few decades, the transportation sector has gone through significant changes, ranging from shifts in vehicle fleet composition to natural and artificial disruptions to traffic patterns. Both an essential form of transportation as well as a major source of air pollution, traffic, to this day, remains a human necessity and a public health challenge. As such, measuring and modeling the temporal and spatial distribution of traffic related air pollution (TRAP) is a critical necessity for exposure scientists, epidemiologists, and other public health professionals. In this dissertation, we investigate methods to measure TRAP in response to recent trends and disruptions in traffic patterns and composition, with a particular focus on California State. To this end, we employ novel combinations of big data, including regulatory air quality data in addition to traffic, land-use, and internet-of-things network data. It is divide into five chapters: an introduction (chapter 1), three chapters of original research (chapters 2-4), and a discussion of the conclusions of the work (chapter 5). Chapter 2 evaluates the near-road air quality impacts of traffic disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Following global activity stoppages associated with stay-at-home measures, studies reported improved air quality in several cities and countries around the world. While widely observed, many studies could not properly attribute the decline of traffic in this chapter evaluates the relationship between traffic volume as reported by the California Department of Transportation and near-road NO and NO2 emissions at seven EPA monitoring sites in California state: four in Northern California and three in Southern California. Chapter 3 models the spatial distribution of non-tailpipe emissions-related PM2.5 chemical species and oxidative potential in Southern California. Combining gold-standard filter samples, land-use data, and a novel internet-of-things low-cost sensor network dataset in a spatial regression (Co-Kriging with External Drift) model, we create a set of exposure surfaces for exposures that serve as tracers of TRAP. Results indicate that compared to typical modelling techniques, namely land-use regressions, the addition of low-cost sensor data improves model accuracy and precision. Chapter 4 evaluates the associations between exposures modeled in Chapter 3 and the ischemic placental disease (IPD) in a prospectively-followed pregnancy cohort of 178 women. Air quality regulation have resulted in declines in tailpipe emissions in recent years. As stated earlier, TRAP is also generated from non-tailpipe sources, including brake and tire wear. Concerned that brake and tire wear particles contain metals and other organic compounds that could harm fetal health, this study uses a logistic regression model to estimate exposure outcome associations. Compared to conventional exposures, namely PM2.5 and black carbon, we find stronger associations between IPD and exposures more specific to brake and tire wear, such as barium, as well as oxidative potential markers. At the time of filing, Chapter 2 has been published in Environmental Science and Technology Letters, Chapter 3 has been published in Environment International, and Chapter 4 is currently in preparation for submission to an academic journal.
Download or read book Autos Smog and Pollution Control written by Wyn Grant and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California has a world-wide reputation as a pioneer of innovative policies for the control of air pollution by motor vehicles. This book analyzes the difficulties which the state has encountered in developing and implementing these policies.
Download or read book Pathways to Urban Sustainability written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured more than 80 percent of the globe's economic activity and offered social mobility and economic prosperity to millions by clustering creative, innovative, and educated individuals and organizations. Clustering populations, however, can compound both positive and negative conditions, with many modern urban areas experiencing growing inequality, debility, and environmental degradation. The spread and continued growth of urban areas presents a number of concerns for a sustainable future, particularly if cities cannot adequately address the rise of poverty, hunger, resource consumption, and biodiversity loss in their borders. Intended as a comparative illustration of the types of urban sustainability pathways and subsequent lessons learned existing in urban areas, this study examines specific examples that cut across geographies and scales and that feature a range of urban sustainability challenges and opportunities for collaborative learning across metropolitan regions. It focuses on nine cities across the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, Flint, MI, Cedar Rapids, IA, Chattanooga, TN, and Vancouver, Canada), chosen to represent a variety of metropolitan regions, with consideration given to city size, proximity to coastal and other waterways, susceptibility to hazards, primary industry, and several other factors.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Smog in Southern California written by Jeffry Fawcett and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Quality Management in the United States written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-08-30 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing the nation's air quality is a complex undertaking, involving tens of thousands of people in regulating thousands of pollution sources. The authors identify what has worked and what has not, and they offer wide-ranging recommendations for setting future priorities, making difficult choices, and increasing innovation. This new book explores how to better integrate scientific advances and new technologies into the air quality management system. The volume reviews the three-decade history of governmental efforts toward cleaner air, discussing how air quality standards are set and results measured, the design and implementation of control strategies, regulatory processes and procedures, special issues with mobile pollution sources, and more. The book looks at efforts to spur social and behavioral changes that affect air quality, the effectiveness of market-based instruments for air quality regulation, and many other aspects of the issue. Rich in technical detail, this book will be of interest to all those engaged in air quality management: scientists, engineers, industrial managers, law makers, regulators, health officials, clean-air advocates, and concerned citizens.
Download or read book A Guide for Reducing Air Pollution Through Urban Planning written by Alan M. Voorhees & Associates and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Report to the Legislature on Guidelines for Relating Air Pollution Control to Land Use and Transportation Planning in the State of California written by California. Air Resources Board and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Occupancy Vehicle System Plans as Air Pollution Control Measures written by Donna Lott and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Pollution and City Planning written by University of California, Berkeley. University at Los Angeles. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Urban Strategy for California written by California. Office of Planning and Research and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Crossing the Smog Barrier written by Los Angeles County (Calif.). Air Pollution Control District and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Choices for Action written by Southern California Association of Governments and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
