TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barwick,Panle Jia
AU  - Donaldson,Dave
AU  - Li,Shanjun
AU  - Lin,Yatang
AU  - Rao,Deyu
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Improved Transportation Networks Facilitate Adaptation to Pollution and Temperature Extremes
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
KW  - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis • Housing • Infrastructure
KW  - jelc
KW  - Air Pollution • Water Pollution • Noise • Hazardous Waste • Solid Waste • Recycling
KW  - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming
KW  - Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion • Travel Time • Safety and Accidents • Transportation Noise
N1  - September 2022; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The social costs of pollution and climate change hinge critically on humans' ability to adapt. Based on transaction records from the world's largest payment network, this research compiles daily travel flows and documents that China's rapid expansion of high-speed railways (HSR) facilitates the use of intercity travel as an effective adaptation strategy. Access to HSR reduces travelers' exposure to extreme air pollution and temperature by 7% and 10%, leading to substantial health benefits. These reductions are attributed to both contemporaneous responses to unexpected adverse conditions and also longer-horizon changes in travel patterns
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w30462
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w30462
ER  -