Transport Emissions and Savings in Health Costs
The paper aims to provide the basis for an estimation equation and will focus on the relation between transport emissions and air quality in an urban environment. This is directly related to the fact that most health impacts are related to local ai...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/804311468152067584/Transport-emissions-and-savings-in-health-costs http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26737 |
| Summary: | The paper aims to provide the basis for
an estimation equation and will focus on the relation
between transport emissions and air quality in an urban
environment. This is directly related to the fact that most
health impacts are related to local air quality levels. The
aim of the paper is to create an understanding of the
factors that play a role in the causal relation between
transport emissions and health effects and provides
approximations from existing studies that can be used to
assess these health impacts and related costs. The paper
focuses on the translation of air pollution levels into
health impacts and health costs. The overall structure of
the paper follows the two key steps and elaborates on the
inherent challenges: (1) identify and measure the health
effects of air pollution, and (2) to estimate the costs of
the health effects. The paper is divided into four chapters:
chapter one is introduction- outlining the goals and
background to the project; chapter two gives impacts of air
pollution from transport on health; chapter three presents
valuation of health impacts- reviews the literature on how
to value the impacts on health associated with air
pollution; and chapter four gives guidelines for calculating
the health effects of air pollution from traffic. |
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