TY - JOUR
T1 - Electric scooters
T2 - Batteries in the battle against ambient air pollution?
AU - van Boven, Job FM
AU - An, Pham Le
AU - Kirenga, Bruce J
AU - Chavannes, Niels H.
PY - 2017/8/4
Y1 - 2017/8/4
N2 - Ambient air pollution is a major global health threat, responsible for an estimated loss of 103 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2015,1,2 and a main contributor to numerous health problems, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.3,4 Within the traffic domain of air pollution, cars, lorries, busses, mopeds, and scooters are all partly responsible, with the latter being of particular importance regarding, amongst others, black carbon, carcinogenic benzene, and (ultrafine) particulate matter exhaust.
AB - Ambient air pollution is a major global health threat, responsible for an estimated loss of 103 million disability-adjusted life-years in 2015,1,2 and a main contributor to numerous health problems, such as cardiovascular and respiratory diseases.3,4 Within the traffic domain of air pollution, cars, lorries, busses, mopeds, and scooters are all partly responsible, with the latter being of particular importance regarding, amongst others, black carbon, carcinogenic benzene, and (ultrafine) particulate matter exhaust.
KW - AIR POLLUTION
KW - COPD
KW - AMBIENT AIR-POLLUTION
KW - ELECTRIC VEHICLES
KW - TRAFFIC NOISE
U2 - 10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30079-7
DO - 10.1016/S2542-5196(17)30079-7
M3 - Comment/Letter to the editor
VL - 1
JO - The Lancet Planetary Health
JF - The Lancet Planetary Health
SN - 2542-5196
IS - 5
ER -