Welcome to BenMAP-Model.org
This is the official BenMAP website hosted by the Community
Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Center at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
BenMAP version 3.0
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BenMAP is a Windows-based computer program
that estimates the health benefits from improvements in air
quality. BenMAP is powerful enough to perform a comprehensive
benefits analysis but simple enough to be used after just
a short tutorial. State, local and international users have
relied upon BenMAP to estimate the health benefits of improved
air quality. BenMAP includes nearly all of the information
users would need to start performing a benefits analysis;
advanced users can customize the program to meet their analytical
needs. Because BenMAP is based on a GIS, the results can
be mapped for ease of presentation.
Some of the purposes for which BenMAP is used include the
following:
- Generation of population/community level ambient pollution
exposure maps;
- Comparison of benefits across multiple regulatory programs;
- Estimation of health impacts associated with exposure
to existing air pollution concentrations;
- Estimation of health benefits of alternative ambient
air quality standards;
- Performance of sensitivity analyses of health or valuation
functions, or of other inputs; and
- Hypothetical, or “what-if,” type analyses.
Download
BenMAPv3.0
User's Manual
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| Features of BenMAP
v 3.0 |
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BenMAP News |
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This version includes a new U.S. population database.
This new database incorporates improvements to the
population algorithm used to allocate population to
air quality modeling grids. The U.S. population database
is now projected to the year 2030, and allows users
to stratify incidence estimates by ethnicity, as well
as the traditional variables of race, age and sex.
- The built in monitoring dataset has been updated to
include all criteria pollutants to the year 2007.
- The
user's guide is now built into the BenMAP program.
- Finally, this version incorporates a large array of
bug fixes.
Note that all configuration and aggregation,
pooling and valuation files constructed using previous
versions of BenMAP should be compatible with version
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BenMAP Version 3.0
Released in October 2008
BenMAP Version 2.4.8
Released in October 2007
BenMAP Training
October 26-28, 2009
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