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Announcements
- January 2009: The U.S. EPA will host a BenMAP training session from January the 26th to the 28th at the CMAS training center in North Carolina. Further information may be found at http://www.cmascenter.org/
- October 2008: EPA releases version 3.0 of BenMAP, which includes a new population database and a new user manual incorporated directly into the program
- May 2008: The U.S. EPA hosted a BenMAP training session from the 21st to the 23rd of July at the Research Triangle Park campus in North Carolina. Further information may be found at http://www.cmascenter.org/
- October 2007: EPA enforcement office quantifies largest ever enforcement benefits using BenMAP-derived benefit per ton estimates. More Info...
- BenMAP used for the August 2007 ozone regulatory impact analysis. EPA analysts used the BenMAP model to estimate the benefits of attaining the proposed ozone NAAQS. More Info...
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.
More Information:
Basic Information - Basics about BenMAP.
Documents - Presentations and training materials about BenMAP.
Downloads - US and international version of BenMAP program and configurations.