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Traffic Evaporation
- I-95 Collapse in Philadelphia Didn’t Cause a Traffic Disaster, Data Shows, Vice, 2023
- Traffic Evaporation: What Really Happens When Road Space is Reallocated from Cars? TheCityFix, 2021
- Disappearing traffic? The story so far, Municipal Engineer, 2002
- Seattle’s Viadoom: The ‘Carmageddon’ That Wasn’t, Streetsblog, 2019
- Article on the Cheonggye Expressway removal and the resulting traffic evaporation, The Guardian, 2006
- What happens to traffic when you tear down a freeway?, Grist, 2019
- Exploring traffic evaporation: Findings from tactical urbanism interventions in Barcelona, Case Studies on Transport Policy, 2022
- Freeway Deconstruction and Urban Regeneration in the United States, UC Berkeley, 2006
- Reduced Demand is Just as Important and Induced Demand, CNU Public Square, 2021
- Reducing roads can cause traffic to ‘Evaporate’, Rapid Transition, 2021
Induced Demand
- Building Bigger Roads Actually Makes Traffic Worse, WIRED, 2014
- Traffic Jam? Blame Induced Demand, Bloomberg, 2018
- Generated Traffic and Induced Travel, Victoria Transport Policy Institute, 2022
- Why the Concept of Induced Demand is a Hard Sell, Governing, 2022
Pollution & Health Impacts
- Map of Air Pollution Scores, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Asthma Data, Minnesota Department of Health
- Life Expectancy by Census Tract, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
- Car tires produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show, the Guardian, 2022
- OECD Says Electric Cars Won’t Save Us From Pollution, Treehugger, 2020
- Freeway pollution travels farther than we thought. Here’s how to protect yourself, LA Times, 2017
- Infographic: Living Near Busy Roads or Traffic Pollution, USC Environmental Health Center
- Living Near Highways and Air Pollution, American Lung Association, 2021
- Childhood cancer and residential exposure to highways: a nationwide cohort study, European Journal of Epidemiology, 2015
- Life and Breath Report: Twin Cities metro area, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 2022
- Exposure to traffic noise linked to higher dementia risk, BMJ, 2021
- If all the vehicles were electric, would it be quieter?, Erica D. Walker, The Conversation, 2022
- The Quality of Life Effects of Highways, The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2022
- Traffic pollution impairs brain function, The University of British Columbia, 2023
- Local inequities in the relative production of and exposure to vehicular air pollution in Los Angeles, Urban Studies, 2023
- Years of breathing traffic pollution increases death rates, study finds, the Guardian, 2023
- Effects of Freeway Rerouting and Boulevard Replacement on Air Pollution Exposure and Neighborhood Attributes, International Journal for Environmental Research and Health, 2021
- Highway traffic pollution puts communities of color at greater health risk, data analysis shows, ABC News, 2023
Climate & Environmental Justice
- Our Streets Environmental Justice Data Portal
- Minnesota Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 2021
- Article on 2022 US Electric Vehicle Sales, Reuters, 2022
- Our Driving Habits Must Be Part of the Climate Conversation, Rocky Mountain Institute, 2021
- Article on nickel mining in New Caledonia, New York Times, 2021
- To solve climate, we need electric cars—and a lot less driving, City Observatory, 2021
- Mapping Tool of Environmental Justice, Climate & Health Scores, Metropolitan Council, 2022
- EV reliance is sparking a dangerous mining boom. There’s another way to cut emissions, study says, Boston Globe, 2023
- Traffic restrictions during the 2008 Olympic Games reduced urban heat intensity and extent in Beijing, Nature, 2022
The History and Impacts of Twin Cities Highway Construction
- Rondo: Beyond the Pavement, Saint Paul Almanac, 2018
- Concrete River: A History of I-94 in Cedar Riverside
- Minneapolis, MN, Segregation by Design
- A Public History of I-35W, Hennepin History Museum and UMN Heritage Studies and Public History Program, 2022
- I-94 in the Union Park District: A History of Prioritizing Speed Over Community, Streets.MN, 2022
- Taken for a Ride, The U.S. History of the Assault on Public Transport in the Last Century, 1996
Transportation Access & Safety
- Data on Car Ownership by Census Tract
- Poor and Black ‘invisible cyclists’ need to be part of post-pandemic transport planning too, The Conversation, 2020
- Racial disparities in traffic fatalities much wider than previously known, Harvard, 2022
Economic Impacts
- Median Household Income by Census Tract, United States Census Bureau
- Highway Infrastructure and the Economy: Implications for Federal Policy, Highway Infrastructure and the Economy, 2011
- Economic Effects of the Potential I-35 Conversion in Downtown Duluth, University of Minnesota Duluth, 2023
- Divided by Design: Quantifying the damage of our transportation program, Transportation for America, 2023