CABOT-O₃: An Optimization Model for Air Quality Benefit-Cost and Distributional Impacts Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Macpherson et al. (2017) presented a mathematical programming model that identifies minimum-cost control strategies that reduce emissions regionally to meet ambient air quality targets. This project introduces the Cost And Benefit Optimization Tool for Ozone (CABOT-O₃), which extends the previous model by updating emissions and air quality relationships, adding a health impacts module, and quantifying distributional impacts. The tool draws upon source apportionment photochemical air quality modeling to characterize the contribution of emissions reductions to ambient ozone concentrations across the contiguous United States. The health impacts analysis module estimates the change in the number and economic value of premature deaths using modeled changes in ozone levels resulting f

SUBMITTER: Bielen DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8358824 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature