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Investigating the Role of the Transportation Sector on Providence’s Intra-Urban Air Quality Trends: An Analysis of Local Impacts from Bus Routes, Shipping Corridors, and Freeways via the Breathe Providence Network and Related Policy Solutions

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Year:
2024
Contributor:
Gendreau, Adam Kyle (creator)
Hastings, Meredith G. (thesis advisor)
Zipp, Samuel (reader)
Porder, Stephen (reader)
Brown University. Urban Studies (sponsor)
Genre:
theses
Subject:
Rhode Island--Providence
Transportation
Air quality
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26300/vat1-pd44

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Abstract:
This research seeks to understand how proximity to RIPTA routes, freight shipping routes, and freeways is related to variations in concentrations of CO, CO2, and PM2.5. Key findings indicate that proximity to more RIPTA routes and freeways can elevate average CO and CO2 exposure, while proximity to shipping routes elevates CO and PM2.5 exposure. Using this data analysis, recently-published state and city government policy recommendations, I provide data-driven recommendations to make air quality metrics more effective and improve the chances of meeting reduction targets. Policy solutions generally discuss electrification potential across all three road-use types, as well as interventions to improve efficiency and community health. This project demonstrates the utility of hyperlocal monitoring to understand intra-urban air quality variability when developing informed policy recommendations for the transportation sector.
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Senior thesis (AB-ScB)--Brown University, 2024
Concentration: Environmental Science and Urban Studies

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Gendreau, Adam Kyle, "Investigating the Role of the Transportation Sector on Providence’s Intra-Urban Air Quality Trends: An Analysis of Local Impacts from Bus Routes, Shipping Corridors, and Freeways via the Breathe Providence Network and Related Policy Solutions" (2024). Breathe Providence Digital Collection, Institute at Brown for Environment & Society Theses and Dissertations, Urban Studies Theses and Dissertations. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://doi.org/10.26300/vat1-pd44

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