Uncertain Air Quality Impacts of Automobile Retirement Programs

Building healthy communities for children: the transportation link.

Two concepts are essential to a definition of a healthy community: social justice and ecological sustainability. These principles must be at the heart of creating healthy communities, cities, and regions. Children and young people are an integral part of socially just and ecologically sustainable communities. Transportation and land-use policies are critical tools for shaping healthy communitie...

Smoggy with a Chance of Altruism: Using Air Quality Forecasts to Drive Behavioral Change

Recent years have seen a rise in information-based environmental policies. This report focuses on a type of voluntary, information-based environmental policy – air quality alerts – by summarizing the recent research and contributing new findings. This evaluation of an air quality policy also has implications generally for the use of information-based policies to achieve environmental goals. As ...

Sustainability of Automobile Air- Conditioning System Using Refrigerant R1234yf Instead of R134a

Air conditioning refrigerant R134a has value of global warming potential (GWP) 1300, which is much higher than MAC Directive (GWP below 150) passed in July 2006. This prompted a search for alternative refrigerant with GWP value less than 150. R1234yf is a new refrigerant which has lower GWP value of 4. Effect of blower speed has been compared and flammability issue of R1234yf has been addre...

Assessment of Air Pollution Impacts on Population Health in Bejaia City, Northern Algeria

BACKGROUND To assess the health impact of air pollution on Bejaia population in the north of Algeria, we carried out a descriptive epidemiologic inquiry near the medical establishments of three areas. METHODS From hospital admissions registers, we collected data on the hospital mortality and admissions relating to the various cardiorespiratory pathologies generated by this type of pollution. ...

I NTERNATIONAL C ENTER FOR T ECHNOLOGY A SSESSMENT In - Car Air Pollution REPORT NO . 4 AN ASSESSMENT OF THE AIR QUALITY INSIDE AUTOMOBILE PASSENGER COMPARTMENTS The Hidden Threat to Automobile Drivers