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Traffic Evaporation
- 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
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 Hospitalizations by ZIP Code, 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
- 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
Climate & Environmental Justice
- Minnesota Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, 2021
- Article on 2022 US Electric Vehicle Sales, Reuters, 2022
- 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
The History and Impacts of Twin Cities Highway Construction
- A Public History of I-35W, humantoll35w.org
Transportation Access
- 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
Economic Impacts
- Median Household Income by Census Tract, United States Census Bureau
- Highway Infrastructure and the Economy: Implications for Federal Policy, 2011