Publications

2025

Usigbe, R. O., Ibrahim-Watkins, Z. R., Williams, A., Wilson, S., Cunliffe, Z., Brown, G., … & Patterson, R. F. (2025). Assessing Transportation Barriers to Maternal Care for Black Women in Los Angeles County. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22, 1429.

2024

McElwee, M. L., Patterson, R. F., Ray, J. R., Reed-Jones, Q., Krovetz, A., McElwee, M. M., & Cooper, M. (2024). A Systems Approach for Addressing Over 200 Years of Environmental Injustice with Community-Driven Monitoring, a Participatory Study in Alsen, LA. Environmental Justice.

Sultana, D., Kauffman, D., Castorina, R., Paulsen, M. H., Bartlett, R., …, Patterson, R., … & Hoover, S. (2024). The East Bay Diesel Exposure Project: a biomonitoring study of parents and their children in heavily impacted communities. Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology, 34, 827-835.

2023

Gohlke, J. M., Harris, M. H., Roy, A., Thompson, T. M., DePaola, M., …, Patterson, R.F., … & Vogel, S. A. (2023). State-of-the-science data and methods need to guide place-based efforts to reduce air pollution inequity. Environmental Health Perspectives, 131, 125003.

Wang, Y., Apte, J. S., Hill, J. D., Ivey, C. E., Johnson, D., …, Patterson, R., … & Marshall, J. D. (2023). Air quality policy should quantify effects on disparities. Science, 381, 272-274.

2022

Patterson, R. F. (2022). Engineering Solutions for Justice: Transformative Approaches to Address Transportation-Related Disparities. The Bridge, 52, 19-24.

Wang, Y., Apte, J. S., Hill, J. D., Ivey, C. E., Patterson, R. F., Robinson, A. L., … & Marshall, J. D. (2022). Location-specific strategies for eliminating US national racial-ethnic PM 2.5 exposure inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119, e2205548119.

2021

Patterson, R. F., & Harley, R. A. (2021). Effects of diesel engine emission controls on environmental equity and justice. Environmental Justice, 14, 360-371.

(Policy Brief) Patterson, R. F. (2021). Driverless Jobs: Autonomous Vehicles & A Just Transition for Black Drivers. Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: Washington, DC. 

(Policy Brief) Patterson, R. F. (2021). Gender, Climate and Transport in the United States. Women’s Environment & Development Organization: Brooklyn, NY. 

2020

(Policy Brief) Patterson, R. F. (2020). New Routes to Equity: The Future of Transportation in the Black Community. Congressional Black Caucus Foundation: Washington, DC.

2019

Patterson, R. F., & Harley, R. A. (2019). Effects of freeway rerouting and boulevard replacement on air pollution exposure and neighborhood attributes. International journal of environmental research and public health, 16, 4072.

Patterson, R. F., & Harley, R. A. (2019). Evaluating near-roadway concentrations of diesel-related air pollution using RLINE. Atmospheric environment, 199, 244-251.

2016

Li, X., Yan, C., Patterson, R. F., Zhu, Y., Yao, X., Zhu, Y., … & Zheng, M. (2016). Modeled deposition of fine particles in human airway in Beijing, China. Atmospheric Environment, 124, 387-395.

2014

Patterson, R. F., Zhang, Q., Zheng, M., & Zhu, Y. (2014). Particle deposition in respiratory tracts of school-aged children. Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 14, 64-73.