If you want to find out more about congestion, pollution and their effects on our health, then this material may be useful:

Congestion

• New Roads Create New Traffic (Campaign for Better Transport)
• Trunk Roads and the Generation of Traffic (Department for Transport)
• Beyond Transport Infrastructure. Lessons for the future from recent road projects (The Countryside Agency/Campaign to Protect Rural England)
• Transport and the Economy. Summary Report (SACTRA)
• Transport and the Economy. Full Report (SACTRA)
• Where the money’s going (Campaign for Better Transport & Campaign to Protect Rural England)

Pollution

• The Mayor’s Air Quality Strategy (Greater London Authority)
• Air pollution in the UK 2012 (DEFRA)

The health impacts of air pollution

• What are the main health impacts of roads in London? (Transport for London)
• The Mortality Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution in the United Kingdom (COMEAP)
• Report on estimation of mortality impacts of particulate air pollution in London (IOM)
• Traffic-related air pollution: A critical review of the literature on emissions, exposure and health-effects (Health Effects Institute)