An independent team of public health experts from Harvard, Columbia, and other leading universities today released preliminary findings from extensive research conducted over the last year showing significant public health benefits from Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states’ proposed Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) clean transportation program. By cleaning up air pollution, making streets safer, and enabling healthier forms of active transportation, like walking, biking, and public transit, the TCI program is projected to generate annual public health benefits of up to $11.1 billion by 2032, including by preventing 4,700 childhood asthma cases, 1,100 deaths, and other health harms from the current transportation system. Today’s research shows these benefits would accrue in every county in the 12 states and District of Columbia region developing the TCI program.
