Special session

Transport related air pollution – Science for Policy
Conveners: Leonor Tarrason (NILU) and Dick van den Hout (TNO)

This session aims to investigate the links between innovative transport policies and human health. You are kindly invited to contribute to this special session with oral or poster presentations. Please select topic "special session  Transport related air pollution – Science for Policy “ while submitting your abstract.

The transport sector is today the main source of health-damaging air pollution. Effective policies at international, national and local level are needed to improve air quality and to reduce exposure of the population to harmful substances. These policies include measures that are effective in the short term and strategies on a much longer time frame to phase out conventionally fuelled cars from cities.

 Themes of particular relevance are:

  • Technologies and measures to  reduce emissions in transport sectors (road, shipping, rail and aviation)
  • The impact of structural measures and urban planning in reducing particulate matter and other relevant pollutants in cities
  • Expected impact of the use of biofuels in transport
  • Co-benefits of transport measures reducing air pollution
  • The effect of transport activities in the size distribution of particulate matter and the role of ultrafine particles in public health
  • Integrated assessment (IA) methodologies to connect the various transport modes in terms of their contributions to human exposure to air pollution

This session is organized in cooperation with the EU FP7 project TRANSPHORM (Transport related Air Pollution and Health impacts - Integrated Methodologies for Assessing Particulate Matter). Initial results from this project are encouraged to be presented as well as results from the related projects MEGAPOLI and CITYZEN.