Sacks Jason D, Lloyd Jennifer M, Zhu Yun, Anderton Jim, Jang Carey J, Hubbell Bryan, Fann Neal
National Center for Environmental Assessment, Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
RTI International, Durham, NC, USA.
Environ Model Softw. 2018 Feb 11;104:118-129.
A number of software tools exist to estimate the health and economic impacts associated with air quality changes. Over the past 15 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and its partners invested substantial time and resources in developing the Environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program - Community Edition (BenMAP-CE). BenMAP-CE is a publicly available, PC-based open source software program that can be configured to conduct health impact assessments to inform air quality policies anywhere in the world. The developers coded the platform in C# and made the source code available in GitHub, with the goal of building a collaborative relationship with programmers with expertise in other environmental modeling programs. The team recently improved the BenMAP-CE user experience and incorporated new features, while also building a cadre of analysts and BenMAP-CE training instructors in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
有许多软件工具可用于估算与空气质量变化相关的健康和经济影响。在过去15年里,美国环境保护局及其合作伙伴投入了大量时间和资源来开发环境效益地图绘制与分析项目——社区版(BenMAP-CE)。BenMAP-CE是一款基于个人电脑的公开可用开源软件程序,可进行配置以开展健康影响评估,为世界任何地方的空气质量政策提供参考。开发者用C#编写了该平台,并将源代码发布在GitHub上,目的是与在其他环境建模程序方面有专业知识的程序员建立合作关系。该团队最近改善了BenMAP-CE的用户体验并纳入了新功能,同时还在拉丁美洲和东南亚培养了一批分析师和BenMAP-CE培训讲师。