Development of CARTEEH Curriculum for Transportation Emissions and Health (Phase I)

The Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health has developed a unique, cross-disciplinary course titled Traffic-Related Air Pollution: Emissions, Human Exposures, and Health. The course is intended to form the basis for a three-credit-hour graduate-level course offered by consortium member institutions and targeted at students and practitioners in the areas of urban planning, transportation planning, transportation policy, transportation engineering, geography, environmental sciences, environmental epidemiology, environmental policy, and public health. However, the course’s individual lectures are designed to stand alone, and as such, they can be mixed and matched to be transferable to other locations and other purposes. In its entirety, 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 and their societal costs. Further, the course will specifically explore the role of current knowledge in environmental regulation and real-world policy making and practice. The course will conclude with an introduction to the basics of policy option generation and selection, methods, and tools to assess policy feasibility and effectiveness to mitigate the adverse environmental and health effects of TRAP, and an overview of available and emerging policy and technology options. Barriers and facilitators to good practice, co-benefits to other sectors, and overlap with the sustainability agenda will be presented, alongside real-world examples and case studies. The course currently includes 60 lecture titles along with an outline of key topics that should be included, at a minimum, in each lecture. For each lecture, a list of potential lecturers has been created. In Phase II of this project, the content of each lecture will be finalized, and the 60 individual lectures, consisting of slides, with supporting notes and information will be made publicly available online.

• Record URL:
  http://www.carteeh.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/01-16-TTI-Development-of-CARTEEH-Curriculum-for-Transportation-Emissions-and-Health-Khreis.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/72675
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program. Cover date: September 2020.
• Corporate Authors:

  Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute
  College Station, TX  United States  77843

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Khreis, Haneen
• Publication Date: 2020-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 34p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Curricula; Health; Policy, legislation and regulation; Pollutants; Traffic
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01838706
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 01-16-TTI
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747128
• Files: UTC, NTL, TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Mar 16 2022 10:19AM