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BenMAP version 3.0


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:

  1. Generation of population/community level ambient pollution exposure maps;
  2. Comparison of benefits across multiple regulatory programs;
  3. Estimation of health impacts associated with exposure to existing air pollution concentrations;
  4. Estimation of health benefits of alternative ambient air quality standards;
  5. Performance of sensitivity analyses of health or valuation functions, or of other inputs; and
  6. Hypothetical, or “what-if,” type analyses.

Download BenMAPv3.0

User's Manual

Features of BenMAP v 3.0   BenMAP News
  • 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 3.0.

BenMAP Version 3.0

Released in October 2008

BenMAP Version 2.4.8

Released in October 2007

BenMAP Training

October 26-28, 2009

 

 

 
System Requirements
  • Windows 2000 or greater
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • 1 GB megabytes of RAM or greater
  • Intel® or compatible processor, 1 GHz processor or greater
  • 250 MB free space
  • Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Edition (MSDE)

Support Quick Links

BenMAP bugzilla email support

Query BenMAP bugzilla tickets

BenMAP User Listserv

M3List Listserv


BenMAP Resources

BenMAP at the U.S. EPA

Benefits and Cost of the Clean Air Act

BenMAP for O3 Regulatory Impact Analyses


Documentation

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Partners

Institute for the Environment

CMAS Center

U.S. EPA OAQPS