As a bilateral cooperation project between Taiwan EPA and USEPA, this project aim to provide integrated information for improving air quality in Taiwan. The main objective of this project is to import the current international advanced technology using science and information tools to help policy decision-making in air quality improvement. “Air Benefit and Cost and Attainment Assessment System (ABaCAS)" combined emission inventory, control technology and cost, air quality modeling, and health benefit assessment. This system could modify and evaluate different air pollution emission and control scenarios to simulate air pollutants levels for cost and health benefit assessment. Those information could support the policy making in control strategies. The first year of this project aim to establish the demonstration Taiwan Air Benefit and Control and Assessment system (Taiwan-ABaCAS) which include (1) Taiwan Emission Cost Analysis System (TECAS), (2) Response Surface Modeling (RSM), and (3) The environmental Benefits Mapping and Analysis Program (BenMAP).

Air Quality, decision support system, emissions control cost, health benefits