FHWA Grant: Investigating Air Quality Health Effects and Highway Proximity

The FHWA seeks to support complex scientific research and evaluation programs on highway proximity air quality health effects to better understand the fundamental science and relationships between on-road vehicle emissions and the health of people who live at various distances from roads or who spend differing amounts of time in traffic through the following efforts:
1) A critical review of over 400 relevant epidemiology, toxicology and exposure studies conducted over the last 20 years;
2) An initiative to understand the differential health impacts of particles from various sources so that the toxicity of vehicle emissions or lack thereof can be seen in context;
3) A determination and implementation of targeted studies needed to understand the health impacts of emerging vehicle technologies; and
4) Identification of the major trends and key regulatory decisions likely to emerge over the next 5 years.