Identifying, Measuring, and Mitigating Environmental Justice Impacts of Toll Roads: Executive Summary Report

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• Creators:
  Prozzi, Jolanda ; Victoria, Isabel ; Torres, Gerald ; Walton, C. Michael ; Prozzi, Jorge
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental justice
  • Impacts
  • Low income groups
  • Minorities
  • Toll roads
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-07/0-5208-1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Department of Transportation
• Abstract:
  In 2004 the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) funded the Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin to develop a methodology to evaluate the environmental justice (EJ) impacts of toll roads given four scenarios: (a) the construction of new toll road(s), (b) converting existing non-toll roads to toll roads, (c) the tolling of capacity enhancements (e.g., additional main lanes or frontage roads to existing facilities), and (d) the conversion of planned non-toll roads to toll roads upon completion. This document presents an executive summary of the research performed in developing the EJ evaluation methodology to identify, measure, and mitigate disproportionately high or adverse impacts imposed on minority and low-income (EJ) communities by toll roads compared to non-toll roads.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  0-5208
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/88833/dot_88833_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 589.50 KB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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