Barcelona study finds cutting traffic could save 200 lives a year

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This improvement in air quality would prevent almost 200 premature deaths per year and, if the electrification of the port was completed, the number of preventable deaths would rise to 228 per year. The study, published in Health & Place magazine, has been carried out in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), which has developed a technology that allows modeling traffic emissions and…

Barcelona study finds cutting traffic could save 200 lives a year

A new study has investigated the health benefits of improving the air quality around Barcelona, by reducing traffic and by electrifying the city’s busy port.  Focusing on NO2 emissions, the team from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health created three scenarios based Barcelona’s Urban Mobility Plan (UMP). The first of these applied all the measures included in the UMP (eg: superblocks, a Low Emission Zone and a greening project) but assumed …