<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>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</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods: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.</mods:abstract><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Gendreau, Adam Kyle</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cre">creator</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Hastings, Meredith G.</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ths">thesis advisor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Zipp, Samuel</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart>Porder, Stephen</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm>reader</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="corporate"><mods:namePart>Brown University. Urban Studies</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">sponsor</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:originInfo><mods:copyrightDate>2024</mods:copyrightDate></mods:originInfo><mods:typeOfResource authority="primo">text_resources</mods:typeOfResource><mods:physicalDescription><mods:digitalOrigin>born digital</mods:digitalOrigin></mods:physicalDescription><mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="text" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2.html" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng">English</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:note type="thesis">Senior thesis (AB-ScB)--Brown University, 2024</mods:note><mods:note displayLabel="Concentration">Environmental Science and Urban Studies</mods:note><mods:genre authority="aat">theses</mods:genre><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01204977"><mods:topic>Rhode Island--Providence</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01155007"><mods:topic>Transportation</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="fast" authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast" valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00802503"><mods:topic>Air quality</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:accessCondition type="use and reproduction">All rights reserved</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="rights statement" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition><mods:accessCondition type="restriction on access">All Rights Reserved</mods:accessCondition><mods:identifier type="doi">10.26300/vat1-pd44</mods:identifier></mods:mods>