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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Total Environ. 2017 May 29;601-602:391–396. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.05.073

Table 2.

Current and Projected Value of Mortality from CHD by Near-roadway Air Pollution Metric and PM2.5

2008 2035
Number of
Deaths
(95% CI)a 		Cost in Millions of
2014 USD
(95% CI)b 		Proportion of cost
of burden relative
to PM2.5 c 		Number of
Deaths
(95% CI)a 		Cost in Millions of
2014 USD
(95% CI)		 Proportion of
cost of burden
relative to
PM2.5 c
NRAP Measures
    Road Proximity 430 (270, 600) 3,791 (368, 9,973) 23% 1,200 (820, 1,600) 10,579 (1,028, 27,833) 41%
  Elemental Carbon 690 (360, 1,000) 6,083 (591, 16,004) 36% 900 (470, 1,300) 7,935 (771, 20,875) 31%
    Traffic Density 1,300 (440, 2,000) 11,461 (1,113, 30,152) 68% 2,500 (860, 4,000) 22,040 (2,141, 57,985) 86%
PM2.5 1,900 (1,400, 2,400) 16,751 (1,627, 44,069) - 2,900 (2,200, 3,600) 25,567 (2,483, 67,263) -
a

Confidence intervals (CI) are from Ghosh et al.9

b

Confidence interval (CI) for the aggregate value treated the number of deaths as constant and the estimate of the value of statistical life as a random variable (from Table 1).

c

Calculated as (value NRAP / value PM2.5).