Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163204 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 717
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
Urban road infrastructure is crucial in determining air pollution. Yet, little is known about the roles played by road width vs. road length. This paper attempts to fill this gap by estimating the effects of road infrastructure on 10-micron particulate matter (PM10) using city-level data from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Our robust modeling results show that the road density index, defined as the ratio of surface area of roads to city territory size, is negatively correlated with PM10. More importantly, when the index of road density is decomposed into road width and road length components, the width is found to help reduce PM10, whereas the length is positively correlated with PM10, although the latter relationship is statistically insignificant.
Subjects: 
urban infrastructure
PM10 pollution
road length
road width
People's Republic of China
JEL: 
L92
Q53
R41
R53
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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