Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION
Volume 208, Issue -, Pages 241-248Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2015.04.011
Keywords
Ultrafine particles; Land use regression; Traffic; Built environment
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- CHRP
- Health Canada
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Exposure models are needed to evaluate the chronic health effects of ambient ultrafine particles (<0.1 mu m) (UFPs). We developed a land use regression model for ambient UFPs in Toronto, Canada using mobile monitoring data collected during summer/winter 2010-2011. In total, 405 road segments were included in the analysis. The final model explained 67% of the spatial variation in mean UFPs and included terms for the logarithm of distances to highways, major roads, the central business district, Pearson airport, and bus routes as well as variables for the number of on-street trees, parks, open space, and the length of bus routes within a 100 m buffer. There was no systematic difference between measured and predicted values when the model was evaluated in an external dataset, although the R-2 value decreased (R-2 = 50%). This model will be used to evaluate the chronic health effects of UFPs using population-based cohorts in the Toronto area. Crown Copyright (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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