Transportation and Health provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available tools needed to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies, the developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and the policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation. The book provides valuable information on how and why to take health into consideration in transport planning and policy, showing how to estimate the impacts of transport on health in planning, policymaking, education and workforce development.- Explores the latest advances on the full spectrum of connections between transport and health- Offers a roadmap on how transport impacts health- Includes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transport- Shows what research and practice gaps need attention- Includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers
Part I: Introduction and setting 1. Transport and health; an introduction Part II Transport and effects on health 2. Perspectives on road safety through the lens of traffic crashes in the United States 3. Traffic, air pollution, and health 4. Transport, noise, and health 5. Active transportation, physical activity, and health 6. Public transport and health 7. Transport and community severance 8. A justice perspective on transport and health Part III Recent and future developments 9. New transport technologies and health 10. Bike-sharing systems and health 11. E-bikes-good for public health? 12. Active transport to and from school Part IV Tools and design 13. Intervention studies in transport and emerging evidence 14. Health impact assessment of transport planning and policy 15. The WHO health economic assessment tool for walking and cycling: how to quantify impacts of active mobility 16. Incorporating health impacts in transportation project decision-making in the United States 17. Community design, street networks, and public health Part V Policy education and workforce 18. Barriers and enablers to change in transport and health 19. Moving to health transport: the drivers of transformational change - a view from Scotland 20. The role of cross-disciplinary education, training, and workforce development at the intersection of transportation and health Part VI Conclusions 21. Transport and health; present and future
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