Evaluating Health Co-Benefits of Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Mobility.

ABSTRACT: There is growing recognition that implementation of low-carbon policies in urban passenger transport has near-term health co-benefits through increased physical activity and improved air quality. Nevertheless, co-benefits and related cost reductions are often not taken into account in decision processes, likely because they are not easy to capture. In an interdisciplinary multi-model approach we address this gap, investigating the co-benefits resulting from increased physical activity and improved air quality due to climate mitigation policies for three urban areas. Additionally we take a (macro-)economic perspective, since that is the ultimate interest of policy-makers. Methodologically, we link a transport modelling tool, a transport emission model, an emission dispersion model, a health

SUBMITTER: Wolkinger B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5981919 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature