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What happens in any particular community after the construction of a relief route depends on numerous factors. The University of Texas studied the changes in ten communities in Texas, all under 50,000 population, where relief routes have been constructed in the past few decades. They compared the changes in these communities to changes in four communities where relief routes have not been built. The goal of the study was to determine what changes could be attributed to the relief route and what changes were due to other factors. This report presents their findings.
Highway relief routes have a variety of impacts on small- and medium-sized communities, both positive and negative. On the positive side, communities ...
On-road measurements of four pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and O3) were continuously recorded by three U.S. EPA-certified FEM air pollution monitoring...
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