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Transportation and Air Pollution: The Environmental Damages

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The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation

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This paper examines estimates of the damages caused by air pollution emissions from transportation sources. The paper first provides a summary of dollar per gallon air pollution damage estimates from twenty studies. Next, new nationwide estimates of damages associated with air emissions are presented. Finally, three key issues in the estimation of damages are discussed.

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  1. Quality of the Environment Division, Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, 20036, USA

    Alan J. Krupnick (Senior Fellow)

  2. Hagler Bailly Consulting, Boulder, Colorado, 80302, USA

    Robert D. Rowe (Director) & Carolyn M. Lang (Senior Associate)

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Krupnick, A.J., Rowe, R.D., Lang, C.M. (1997). Transportation and Air Pollution: The Environmental Damages. In: Greene, D.L., Jones, D.W., Delucchi, M.A. (eds) The Full Costs and Benefits of Transportation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-59064-1_12

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