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- Active transport is associated with improved mood and feelings of well-being, lower body weight, and better heart health. Walking and cycling are linked also with better cognition and mental alertness.
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Oct 28, 2016 · Ellen Flint and colleagues’ longitudinal study 4 on the use of active or public transport versus cars to commute to work, published in The Lancet Public Health, is a major advance in understanding the contribution of all modes of physical activity to obesity and other health outcomes.
- James F Sallis
- 2016
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Globally, transport is a fundamental part of modern living. There is substantial variation in the transport polices adopted and systems available both within and between countries. For example, cities around the world differ in the extent of their provision of public transport, infrastructure for walking and cycling, and car dominance. Similarly, t...
The main sources of information for this introductory article are: Health on the Move 22; articles in the Journal of Transport and Health updating some chapters; papers in Journal of Transport and Health; and the authors’ own reading on the topic.
The freedom and opportunities promised by modern transport systems epitomize some of humanity’s greatest achievements. Well-designed, safe and equitable transport systems have the potential to optimize access to employment opportunities, to services, including health and education, to social and family networks, and impact positively on health and ...
Biofuels
Although there are many synergies between healthy and sustainable transport policies, there are some differences.4 Recently, UK concerns about air pollution have highlighted divergent policy aims, whereby diesel-engine vehicles were encouraged by previous governments, because of the lower CO2 emissions compared with petrol engines. However, diesel engines emit more fine particles, with deleterious effects on cardiorespiratory diseases, including exacerbations and premature death. The UK gover...
Definitions of road travel injuries – pedestrian falls
Some countries, for example Russia, require involvement of a motor vehicle to define a death or injury when travelling as a road travel casualty. Most high income countries, including Great Britain, include travel-related casualties involving any form of vehicle, however powered. However, although falls off a bicycle on-highway and single vehicle crashes are included, pedestrian falls on a pavement are excluded from official road travel casualty data. Pedestrian non-fatal, travel-related inju...
Older drivers
There is a widespread belief that older drivers are more likely to crash, but the evidence is sparse. Men and women aged 75+ do have higher fatality24 and hospital admission rates22 as drivers than middle-aged drivers, but the extent to which this is an increase in collisions not increased case-fatality rates associated with co-morbidity is unclear. Li and colleagues found that crash risk was higher for drivers aged 75+ but the increased case-fatality rate had greater effects.30 The risk driv...
20 mph speed limits
In 2011, excessive speed was reported as a contributory factor in one-quarter of road fatalities in Britain.36 The likelihood of death with increasing excess speed is not linear. At 20 mph, 5% of pedestrians are killed in collisions between a cars and pedestrians, however, this increases to 50% at 30 mph and 95% at 40 mph. The World Health Organization endorses adopting a limit as low as 20 kph (12 mph) in school and shopping areas, for example, and on exclusively residential roads.37 Adoptin...
Behaviour change
Kelly and Barker have written about the six common errors made by policy-makers in relation to behaviour change.41 These misapprehensions are: ‘it is just common sense’; ‘it is about getting the message across’; ‘knowledge and information drive behaviour’; ‘people act rationally’; ‘people act irrationally’; and ‘it is possible to predict accurately’. They focus on the need to understand the preceding conditions that leads to people’s behaviours, and what leads to those precursors. Interventio...
Autonomous vehicles have potential positive and negative impacts on the public’s health and a research agenda has been published.44Benefits include being electric, so pollution is generated elsewhere, not on roads, (and if green energy, only from building that energy infrastructure); reduced injury (or so it is claimed); enabling people with impair...
Mobility and transport can allow us to thrive as communities and global nations. Although transport planning and access have not traditionally been viewed as the realm of the health profession, the transport sector has profound impacts on health and inequalities. A well-integrated and high quality transport system that prioritizes walking, cycling ...
- M C I van Schalkwyk, J S Mindell
- 2018
Jan 1, 2020 · Active transport is associated with improved mood and feelings of well-being, lower body weight, and better heart health. Walking and cycling are linked also with better cognition and mental alertness.
- Alistair Woodward, Kirsty Wild
- 2020
Aug 24, 2015 · Transportation and Health Connection. Active transportation allows people to be active throughout the day and potentially improve their health. The connections between physical activity and public health have been widely documented.
Active travel, particularly walking and cycling, has been recommended because of the health benefits associated with increased physical activity. Use of public transport generally involves some walking to bus stops or train stations.
Oct 1, 2022 · Transportation opportunities influence health, for example, by providing access to vital opportunities, including but not limited to medical services, healthy food, and education (Meyer and Elrahman, 2019). Travel behavior affects public health directly by promoting active travel.
Aug 10, 2022 · Transport-related physical activity (TRPA) has been identified as a way to increase physical activity due to its discretionary and habitual nature. Factors thought to influence TRPA span multiple disciplines and are rarely systematically considered in unison.
