Open AccessEstimating Long-Term Average Particulate Air Pollution Concentrations: Application of Traffic Indicators and Geographic Information Systems
Author(s) -
Michael Bräuer,
Gerard Hoek,
Patricia van Vliet,
Kees Meliefste,
Paul Fischer,
Ulrike Gehring,
Joachim Heinrich,
Josef Cyrys,
Tom Bellander,
Marie Lewné,
Bert Brunekreef
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/01.ede.0000041910.49046.9b
Subject(s) - environmental science , air pollution , particulates , regression analysis , atmospheric sciences , population , meteorology , linear regression , traffic intensity , particulate pollution , statistics , air quality index , geography , mathematics , environmental health , medicine , chemistry , telecommunications , organic chemistry , computer science , geology
As part of a multicenter study relating traffic-related air pollution with incidence of asthma in three birth cohort studies (TRAPCA), we used a measurement and modelling procedure to estimate long-term average exposure to traffic-related particulate air pollution in communities throughout the Netherlands; in Munich, Germany; and in Stockholm County, Sweden.