THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF TRANSPORT EMISSIONS IN AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL CITIES

A number of studies have been initiated in recent years in Australia and elsewhere in the developed world with the objective of costing the health and environmental impacts of ambient concentrations of air pollution. These studies are largely in response to the mounting epidemiological evidence that exposure to air pollutants can be harmful to humans. Many of these studies have attempted to link the extent of life lost and the socioeconomic characteristics of those at greatest risk to air pollution. From that analysis, estimates of the economic cost have been derived. This paper is largely drawn from a forthcoming Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics (BTRE) study and is an attempt to quantify the economic costs of the health effects of transport emissions in Australian capital cities. It uses epidemiology-based exposure-response functions to derive an attributable number of health cases, and applies a BTRE-refined human capital approach to derive economic costs. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see ITRD abstract no. E210413.

• Corporate Authors:

  NZ INSTITUTE OF HIGHWAY TECHNOLOGY LTD

  PO BOX 4273
  NEW PLYMOUTH,   New Zealand 
• Authors:
  • AMOAKO, J
  • OCKWELL, A
  • LODH, M
• Conference:
  • AUSTRALASIAN TRANSPORT RESEARCH FORUM (ATRF), 26TH, 2003, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND
• Publication Date: 2003

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: 19 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Air pollution; Conferences; Costs; Economic factors; Economics; Environment; Exhaust gases; Health; Transportation
• ITRD Terms: 2452: Air pollution; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 263: Economics of transport; 2442: Emission; 2455: Environment; 2144: Health
• Subject Areas: Economics; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00975579
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 7 2004 12:00AM