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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 4.0
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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
BenMAPv4.0
User's Manual
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| Features of BenMAP
v 4.0 |
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BenMAP Releases |
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BenMAP 4.0 incorporates a number of key improvements,
including the use of a new database that greatly improves
compatibility with Microsoft Vista and Windows 7 operating
systems; this new database is also able to store and
access a much larger amount of data.
- Version 4.0 includes
updated mortality rate projections based on newer data
as well as more spatially resolved morbidity rates
for many areas of the country.
Note that all configuration
and aggregation, pooling and valuation files constructed
using previous versions of BenMAP should be compatible
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BenMAP Version 4..0
Released in September, 2010
BenMAP Version 3.0
Released in October 2008
BenMAP Version 2.4.8
Released in October 2007
BenMAP Training
April 30-32, 2012
October 22-24, 2012
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