Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation

Transportation and Public Health: An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation helps current and future transportation professionals integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning, thus supporting sustainability and promoting societal health and well-being. The book defines key issues, describes potential solutions, and provides detailed examples of how solutions have been implemented worldwide. In addition, it demonstrates how to identify gaps in existing policy frameworks. Addressing a critical and emerging urgent need in transportation and public health research, the book creates a coherent, inclusive and interdisciplinary framework for understanding.

By integrating principles from transportation planning and engineering, health management, economics, social and organizational psychology, the book deepens understanding of these multiple perspectives and tensions inherent in integrating public health and transportation planning and policy implementation.

Bridges the gap between transport and public health, two fields that have traditionally traveled on separate and parallel tracksSynthesizes key research and practice literatureIncludes teaching and learning aids, such as case studies, chapter objectives, summaries and discussion questions

1. Transportation and public health: An introduction 2. Dimensions of public health affected and influenced by transportation 3. Institutional frameworks: Laying the groundwork for mainstreaming public health into transportation decision-making 4. Air and water pollution: An important nexus of transportation and health 5. Community development, active transportation and public health 6. Transportation design, operations, and public health 7. Transportation system safety and public health 8. Transportation 9. Incorporating public health concerns into transportation decision making