Air pollution health risk assessment (AP-HRA), principles and applications

T Hassan Bhat, G Jiawen, H Farzaneh - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Air pollution is a major public health problem. A significant number of epidemiological
studies have found a correlation between air quality and a wide variety of adverse health …

Potential impacts of prescribed fire smoke on public health and socially vulnerable populations in a Southeastern US state

S Afrin, F Garcia-Menendez - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Prescribed fire is an essential tool for wildfire risk mitigation and ecosystem restoration in the
Southeastern United States. It is also one of the region's largest sources of atmospheric …

New Express Delivery Service and Its Impact on CO2 Emissions

D Lazarević, L Švadlenka, V Radojičić, M Dobrodolac - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
A rapid development of Internet technologies creates new opportunities for e-commerce,
which is one of the fastest-growing segments of the entire economy. For policymakers, the …

Transport-energy-environment modeling and investment requirements from Brazilian commitments

GV Goes, DNS Gonçalves, DA Márcio de Almeida… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
To foster the energy transition towards a low carbon economy, countries must set and report
climate policy instruments. Since the Paris Agreement, nations have been strongly …

Clean fleets, different streets: evaluating the effect of New York City's clean bus program on changes to estimated ambient air pollution

GS Lovasi, CA Treat, D Fry, I Shah… - Journal of exposure …, 2023 - nature.com
Background Motor vehicles, including public transit buses, are a major source of air pollution
in New York City (NYC) and worldwide. To address this problem, governments and transit …

The bus is arriving: Population growth and public transportation ridership in rural America

Y Zhang, D Xu - Journal of Rural Studies, 2022 - Elsevier
The US is known for having a low rate of public transportation use, especially in its rural
areas. Some argue that because rural America has such a low population density, public …

The Use of Biomethane in Internal Combustion Engines for Public Transport Decarbonization: A Case Study

M Noussan - Energies, 2023 - mdpi.com
Public transport can play a central role in representing a viable and sustainable mobility
solution, especially in urban areas. Average energy consumption and emissions per …

[HTML][HTML] Scenario analysis of strategies to control air pollution

H Relvas, D Lopes, J Ferreira, A Silva, S Rafael… - Urban Climate, 2022 - Elsevier
Air quality in Europe has been improving over the last decades. Notwithstanding, urban
areas are still facing exceedances of the Air Quality Directive's limit and target values. In this …

Air Quality Health Benefits of the Nevada Renewable Portfolio Standard

A Rezaee, LWA Chen, G Lin, MP Buttner, M Gakh… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, renewable portfolio standards (RPS), which require a certain percentage of
electricity sold to consumers to come from renewable resources, have been established by …

The biomethane potential for public transport decarbonization in Italian cities

M Noussan, M Prussi… - Journal of Physics …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport sector remains heavily reliant on oil products, and it is among those that are
considered harder to decarbonize, especially in some specific segments. Considering public …