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Active Living Research Annual Conference
San Diego, CA ~ February 26-28, 2013
Paradise Point Hotel
Active Living Research invites you to our 10th annual conference in San Diego! The theme of the 2013 conference is Achieving Change Across Sectors: Integrating Research, Policy and Practice.
The ALR conference is an opportunity to hear the latest evidence on policy and environmental strategies to increase physical activity. In line with our increased emphasis on translating and applying research, and to create more opportunities for exchange among researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners, we have developed two tracks for the conference - research and practice. The agenda includes roundtable discussions, two energetic keynote speakers, oral and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics, interactive learning workshops, an engaging panel presentation, as well as many physical activity opportunities.
Visit the 2013 Conference Web site<http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference2013> for a complete overview of the program and register before January 15th to get the 'early bird' discount.
How do I register? Online registration is available at http://www.regonline.com/alrannualconference2013. Space is limited, so we highly encourage you to register early!
Hotel room rate is only $179.00/night. Take advantage of this great rate at the Paradise Point Hotel! All sessions and events will take place at the Paradise Point, so staying at the conference hotel will allow you to gain the full benefit of the conference opportunities (e.g. extra time for networking, ability to actively participate in all the scheduled programs and activities, etc.).
How do I make my hotel room reservation? All the information you need to book your accommodations at Paradise Point is available at the Hotel Information<http://www.activelivingresearch.org/conference2013/hotel> page on our website.
Questions? Please email us at alr(a)ucsd.edu<mailto:alr@ucsd.edu> or call 619-260-5534
Call for Papers for the 2013 Transportation/ Land Use Planning and Air
Quality Conference
"Developing Healthy and Livable Communities"
June/July, 2013 (TBD)
Charlotte, North Carolina
The Transportation Research Board Transportation and Air Quality
Committee, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) T&DI Planning,
Economics and Finance Committee, the Air and Waste Management
Association, and the Federal Highway Administration and other sponsors
are seeking papers for 20 sessions for the 2013 Transportation/ Land Use
Planning and Air Quality (TLUPAQ) Conference. The TLUPAQ Conference has
been held in the past at different locations including:
Danvers, Massachusetts, May, 1993
Lake Tahoe, California, August, 1997
Portland, Oregon, May, 1998
Lake Lanier, Georgia, November, 1999
Orlando, Florida, July, 2007
Denver, Colorado, July, 2009
San Antonio, Texas, May, 2011
The focus of the papers should be related to innovative research and
strategies leading to the integration of transportation planning, land
use and air quality. Our spotlight theme in 2013 will be "Developing
Healthy and Livable Communities".
We are interested specifically in papers related to the following
topics: (1) smart growth implementation and evaluation; (2) scenario
planning and livability design strategies; (3) intelligent
transportation strategies and implementation; (4) climate change; (5)
pricing strategies; (6) information systems; (7) MOVES model evaluations
and data; (8) technological innovations; and (9) health impacts of land
use and transportation decisions.
Paper/Extended Abstract Requirements: The conference proceedings will be
produced by ASCE. All papers/extended abstracts must be submitted in
Microsoft Word and must meet the ASCE conference proceedings paper
format requirements. Each paper/extended abstract cannot exceed 10 pages
(includes figures and tables) in length. Guidelines to submit papers can
be found at the following web link:
http://pubs.asce.org/authors/book/proceedingssub/ConfProcAuthorGuideCamR
eady.htm .
Authors with a paper/extended abstract accepted for presentation and who
wish to have their paper/extended abstract published in the conference
proceedings will be required to complete a Copyright Transfer Agreement,
a Permission Verification Form for Books and CD-ROMs (available at the
above web link), and must register for the conference by Friday, April
26th, 2013. Note that extended abstracts are acceptable for those
authors who do not wish to submit a full paper.
Paper/Extended Abstract Submittal Deadline: Draft papers or abstracts
for the 2013 TLUPAQ Conference must be submitted electronically no later
than Friday, February 8th, 2013. Each paper or extended abstract will be
reviewed and comments will be provided to the author(s) by Friday, March
22nd, 2013. Authors will make any necessary revisions to the paper or
extended abstract and resubmit the revised paper or extended abstract by
Friday, April 26th, 2013. Papers or extended abstracts should be sent
electronically to Srinivas Pulugurtha at SSPulugurtha(a)uncc.edu .
If you have any questions regarding the 2013 TLUPAQ Conference, please
contact Jane Lin at janelin(a)uic.edu .
Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.
A scope of services was just posted on the MDOT website for a study on
the Economic Impacts of Bicycling in Michigan.
The closing date is December 10.
http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_RFP_SS_REQ1080_posted_404288
_7.pdf
The Michigan Department of Transportation has determined that a report
is necessary which quantifies the economic impacts and health benefits
of bicycling on Michigan's economy. The
bicycle is used for transportation, exercise, and recreation by people
across the state regardless of age and socio-economic status. All across
the state from Marquette in the Upper Peninsula to downtown Detroit to
the small southwestern Michigan town of South Haven, residents of these
communities use the bicycle for transportation purposes, while visitors
travel to these communities to bicycle. It is also known that people
travel to Michigan with their bicycle from other states and use for both
recreation and transportation.
Whether it is bicycle lanes in urban areas, paved shoulders in rural
areas, a rail-trail connecting communities, the presence of a U.S.
Bicycle Route, or an ice cream or bicycle shop; the relative
benefits and availability of bicycle facilities and services can
influence bicycling in a community. MDOT seeks to develop a report which
summarizes a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative
assessment of economic and community benefits attributed to the
provision of bicycle facilities and services. These benefits can include
employment, attraction of new business, increases in existing
business activity, increases in property values, visitor spending,
education, tourism, congestion mitigation, safety, environmental
benefits, capital projects, etc..
This upcoming webinar may be of interest...(apologies if you receive this multiple times).
Gabe
Gabe Rousseau, Ph.D.
Federal Highway Administration
Office of Human Environment
Livability Team Leader and
Bicycle & Pedestrian Program Manager
(202)-366-8044
From: Schweizer, Christian (DCE-CEH) [mailto:csc@euro.who.int]
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2012 5:54 AM
To: training(a)heatwalkingcycling.org<mailto:training@heatwalkingcycling.org>
Subject: Announcement: Online training for the WHO/Europe Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for Walking and Cycling
Dear interested HEAT users
WHO/Europe's Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and cycling is an online resource to estimate the economic savings resulting from reductions in mortality as a consequence of regular cycling and/or walking (see www.heatwalkingcycling.org<http://www.heatwalkingcycling.org>). HEAT can be used by walking and cycling campaigners, researchers and policymakers alike. It enables users to estimate the value to health of new infrastructure, policies or programmes. These can be used to make the case for new investment, or as inputs to comprehensive health impact assessments.
To help people in the use of this tool, WHO/Europe is now offering online training sessions on the following dates:
* 30 November 2012
* 14 December 2012
* 14 January 2013
* 22 February 2013
* 15 March 2013
All sessions will start at 15:00 Central European Time, and will last approximately one hour. During this time you will be walked through an example of HEAT, and be able to ask questions online to experts on HEAT.
Please register by sending an e-mail to training(a)heatwalkingcycling.org<mailto:training@heatwalkingcycling.org?subject=HEAT%20online%20training> stating:
* The date of the session you wish to join
* Any details of ways that you have used HEAT
* Any specific questions you would like addressed during the training
We will then send you details of how to log on and access the training session in due time.
Please feel free to forward this message to other colleagues or mailing lists of possibly interested HEAT users.
Kind regards,
Christian Schweizer
Technical Officer, Transport and Health
Division of Communicable Diseases, Health Security and Environment
World Health Organization - Regional Office for Europe
Scherfigsvej 8
2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel. +45 39 17 1386, Fax. +45 39 17 1818
Skype: who-schweizerc
E-mail: csc(a)euro.who.int<mailto:csc@euro.who.int>
WHO/Europe's Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for walking and
cycling is an online resource to estimate the economic savings resulting
from reductions in mortality as a consequence of regular cycling and/or
walking (see www.heatwalkingcycling.org). HEAT can be used by walking
and cycling campaigners, researchers and policymakers alike. It enables
users to estimate the value to health of new infrastructure, policies or
programmes. These can be used to make the case for new investment, or as
inputs to comprehensive health impact assessments.
To help people in the use of this tool, WHO/Europe is now offering
online training sessions on the following dates:
* 30 November 2012
* 14 December 2012
* 14 January 2013
* 22 February 2013
* 15 March 2013
All sessions will start at 15:00 Central European Time, and will last
approximately one hour. During this time you will be walked through an
example of HEAT, and be able to ask questions online to experts on HEAT.
Please register by sending an e-mail to training(a)heatwalkingcycling.org
<mailto:training@heatwalkingcycling.org?subject=HEAT%20online%20training
> stating:
* The date of the session you wish to join
* Any details of ways that you have used HEAT
* Any specific questions you would like addressed during the
training
They will then send you details of how to log on and access the training
session in due time. Please feel free to forward this message to other
colleagues or mailing lists of possibly interested HEAT users.
The HIA (Health Impact Assessment) of the Americas workshop will be held
on March 11th and 12th, 2013 at the offices of The California Endowment
in Oakland, California. The two-day workshop aims to bring together HIA
practitioners to assess progress in the field, and to continue to
develop strategies to improve and elevate the practice of HIA in the
Americas.
The HIA of the Americas workshop is intended for current practitioners
of Health Impact Assessment who are involved or interested in strategic
HIA field-building. Workshop participants should have direct experience
in conducting health impact assessments, or currently be involved in
conducting their first HIA. While registration will be open to an
international audience, the content will be focused on HIA practice in
the Americas.
More information and a registration form for the conference can be found
online at www.hiasociety.org <http://www.hiasociety.org/> .
Eloisa Raynault | American Public Health Association | 800 I Street NW,
Washington DC 20001 | Transportation, Health and Equity Program Manager
| o: 202-777-2487 | http://apha.org/transportation
<http://apha.org/transportation>
Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
Hello all TRB health and Transportation Subcommittee Friends,
The National Cooperative Highway Research Program is sponsoring development of a Guide for Public Transportation Pandemic Planning and Response, with small and rural transit agencies as the primary target audience. The project team is conducting a survey of transit agencies, state DOTs, emergency managers and public health officers to identify and distill best practices. The survey is also intended to identify potential candidates for follow-on interviews.
We believe that you are a key part of our target audience for the survey. Are you interested in Pandemic Planning (especially for small & rural transit agencies)? Do you have best practices, lessons or contacts to share? If so please take the short survey<http://pandemictransportation.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/wanted-pandemic-tran…> (no more than 15minutes) & check out the blog 'Planning Transportation for Pandemic Flu<http://pandemictransportation.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/wanted-pandemic-tran…>'. There you can also discover the great resources and links that we have already aggregated through the research for this project. For example, the site has best practice pandemic plans listed by state, along with descriptions of those plans and hyperlinks to the documents. It also has a list of state transportation and public health organizations' social media accounts and much more.
The survey is scheduled to close November 30, 2012, so please check it out, post it and/or forward it right away. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.
Thank you in advance for your participation!
Sincerely,
Illika Sahu
Assistant Planner Intern
The Louis Berger Group, Inc.
202.303.2695
1250 23rd St. NW | Washington, DC 20037
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