HEARTS

Reserch team

• Matti Jantunen, prof.
• Sari Alm, PhD
• Päivi Aarnio, TechLic
• Otto Hänninen, M.Sc.

Collaboration

• WHO/Europe, Rome, Italy
• Imperial College, London, UK
• Government Agency in the areas of Energy and Environment, Rome, Italy
• National Institute for Transport and Safety Research, France
• Institute of Studies for the Integration of Systems, Rome, Italy
• University of Versailles Saint-Quentin, France
• National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands
• Berry Environmental Ltd, Shepperton, UK; Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK

Funding

• European Comission 5th Framework Programme (QLK4-CT-2001-00492)
• Academy of Finland

Contact person

• Matti Jantunen

Background

Traffic-related noise, air pollution and accidents generate a wide range of adverse health effects. Usually risk assessment of traffic focus only on the impact of a single factor and integrated risk assessment is missing.

Objectives

1) Develop and test an integrated method to conduct traffic-related health impact assessments

• different exposures (air pollution, noise, accidents)
• different health endpoints (mortality, morbidity, annoyance)
• different populations
• spatial and temporal scales

2) improve health and help to assess health effects of political decisions

Description

Study combine transport, air pollution, noise propagation, traffic accident, time-activity and exposure models to define health effects of different traffic scenarios.

The integrated health impact models will be tested in three European cities. (Leicester, UK; Lille, France; Florence, Italy). KTL is responsible for time activity and population exposure workpackages.

Links

• Homepage

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