Advances in Transportation and Health: Tools, Technologies, Policies, and Developments

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 healthOffers a "roadmap" on how transport impacts healthIncludes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transportShows what research and practice gaps need attentionIncludes 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