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Title: Diesel Truck Traffic in Low-Income and Minority Communities Adjacent to Ports: Environmental Justice Implications of Near-Roadway Land Use Conflicts
Accession Number: 01089247
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Container traffic at the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, has tripled in the past 15 years, resulting in massive port-related heavy-duty diesel truck (HDDT) traffic on surface streets in the low-income and minority communities of Wilmington and western Long Beach adjacent to the ports. In response to the limitations of existing data on the volumes of HDDTs on surface streets, this study used direct video measurements of surface street traffic at 11 intersections and line segments in these communities to document port-related truck traffic traveling to and from intermodal facilities, truck service sites, local amenities. and regional goods movement roadways. The volumes of HDDTs often reached 400 to 600/h for several hours immediately upwind of sensitive land uses, such as schools, open-field parks, and residences. Diurnal truck traffic patterns on surface streets varied by intersection, local conditions, and passenger car commute patterns. Given the documented health and environmental consequences of HDDT emissions, the results raise serious public health concerns for the inhabitants who reside, work, attend school, or recreate in close proximity to roadways with HDDT traffic in these communities adjacent to ports. This paper discusses the environmental justice implications of truck-related land use conflicts and current planning and emission control strategies to mitigate the local air pollution impacts of increasing port-related truck traffic in these low-income, minority communities.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01116567
Language: English
Authors: Houston, DouglasKrudysz, MargaretWiner, ArthurPagination: pp 38-46
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780309113397
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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TRT Terms:
Air pollution; Air quality management; Diesel engine exhaust gases; Environmental impacts; Environmental justice; Freight traffic; Heavy duty trucks; Intermodal facilities; Low income groups; Minorities; Pollutants; Ports; Public health; Regional planning; Residential areas; Socioeconomic factors; Truck traffic
Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 29 2008 4:57PM
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