Objective
TRANSPHORM brings together leading air quality and health researchers and users to improve the knowledge of transport related airborne particulate matter (PM) and its impact on human health and to develop and implement assessment tools for scales ranging from city to Europe. Over four years, TRANSPHORM will aim to develop and implement an integrated methodology to assess the health impacts of PM air pollution covering the whole chain from emissions to disease burden. The objectives will be: (i) To improve our understanding of transport sources of size-resolved and speciated PM air pollution including non-exhaust, shipping, aviation and railways; (ii) To improved emission factors of ultrafine particle number (PN0.1) and mass fractions of PM1, PM2.5 and PM10 for key transport sources; (iii) To conduct targeted measurements in Rotterdam, Helsinki and Thessaloniki for source apportionment, exposure assessment and model evaluation; (iv) To quantify exposure to airborne PM in urban environments resulting from traffic, road, shipping, rail and aviation; (v) To improve and integrate air quality dispersion and exposure models for urban and regional scales including long-range transport; (vi) To develop new concentration-response (CRF) linking long and short-term ambient residential exposure to size-resolved and speciated PM with key health endpoints; (vii) To develop and implement integrated assessment tool to investigate and analyse the whole chain of processes for selected cities and Europe; (viii) To incorporate micro-environmental PM concentrations, time-activity patterns, and estimates of internal dose into the health impact assessment; (ix) To conduct integrated health assessment of selected European cities; (x) To design and implement mitigation and adaptation strategies for European and international policy refinement and development; (xi) To exploit the results of TRANSPHORM through global dissemination and interactions with stakeholders.
Field of science
- /social sciences/social and economic geography/transport
- /natural sciences/earth and related environmental sciences/environmental sciences/pollution
- /engineering and technology/environmental engineering/air pollution engineering
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2009-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-IP - Large-scale integrating projectCoordinator
AL10 9AB Hatfield
United Kingdom
Participants (20)
2595 DA Den Haag
3584 CS Utrecht
2027 Kjeller
00560 Helsinki
51147 Koln
3010 Kessel Lo
54636 Thessaloniki
1049 Brussels
EH14 4AP Edinburgh
100 31 Stockholm
00271 Helsinki
0313 Oslo
85764 Neuherberg
17177 Stockholm
2100 Kobenhavn
SW7 2AZ London
CH-4002 Basel
02300 Vilnius
70174 Stuttgart
128 00 Praha
