TRBHealth August 2014

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[H+T--Friends] FW: The Societal Costs and Benefits of Commuter Bicycling

by Faith.Hall＠dot.gov

From: Benjamin.Thielen Sent: Monday, August 18, 2014 3:04 PM To: FedsOnBikes Subject: The Societal Costs and Benefits of Commuter Bicycling Of possible interest. Regards, Ben Thielen The Societal Costs and Benefits of Commuter Bicycling: Simulating the Effects of Specific Policies Using System Dynamics Modeling Alexandra Macmillan,1 Jennie Connor,2 Karen Witten,3 Robin Kearns,4 David Rees,5 and Alistair Woodward1 http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/wp-content/uploads/122/4/ehp.1307250.pdf Background: Shifting to active modes of transport in the trip to work can achieve substantial co-benefits for health, social equity, and climate change mitigation. Previous integrated modeling of transport scenarios has assumed active transport mode share and has been unable to incorporate acknowledged system feedbacks. Objectives: We compared the effects of policies to increase bicycle commuting in a car-dominated city and explored the role of participatory modeling to support transport planning in the face of complexity. Methods: We used system dynamics modeling (SDM) to compare realistic policies, incorporating feedback effects, nonlinear relationships, and time delays between variables. We developed a system dynamics model of commuter bicycling through interviews and workshops with policy, community, and academic stakeholders. We incorporated best available evidence to simulate five policy scenarios over the next 40 years in Auckland, New Zealand. Injury, physical activity, fuel costs, air pollution, and carbon emissions outcomes were simulated. Results: Using the simulation model, we demonstrated the kinds of policies that would likely be needed to change a historical pattern of decline in cycling into a pattern of growth that would meet policy goals. Our model projections suggest that transforming urban roads over the next 40 years, using best practice physical separation on main roads and bicycle-friendly speed reduction on local streets, would yield benefits 10-25 times greater than costs. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first integrated simulation model of future specific bicycling policies. Our projections provide practical evidence that may be used by health and transport policy makers to optimize the benefits of transport bicycling while minimizing negative consequences in a cost-effective manner. The modeling process enhanced understanding by a range of stakeholders of cycling as a complex system. Participatory SDM can be a helpful method for integrating health and environmental outcomes in transport and urban planning.

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[H+T--Friends] International Transport and Health conference 6th to 8th July 2015 in London

by Mindell, Jenny

I am co-chair (Science) of the Transport and Health Study Group and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transport and Health (www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-and-health/<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-and-health/>). Karyn Warsow, Founder & Executive Director of the Transportation Public Health Link (www.tphlink.com), and I are in the planning stages of hosting the 1st International Conference on Transport & Health, which will be held at UCL (University College London) on 6th to 8th July 2015. It will be aimed at a mixed audience of policy-makers, practitioners and academics. I am writing to give you advance notice of the dates for your diary & that the deadline for submission of abstracts will be 9th January 2015 (we will issue the formal call, and topics, later this year). We are also asking that your organisation help fund this innovative conference. Our primary objective is to facilitate the sharing of best practices and lessons learned between cross-disciplinary professionals involved in the research and planning of transportation projects across the world. To accomplish this ambitious goal, we are primarily seeking financial and in-kind sponsors to underwrite the conference. However, we will also consider organisations willing to contribute “pump-priming” support to assist with the up-front costs. This loan could be set-up for repayment if the conference at least breaks even (our intention). Currently, we have received informal commitments from John Hopkins University School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland; the Institute of Transportation Engineers; and the Texas A&M Transportation Institution, to name a few. Karyn or I should be happy to provide you or your colleagues with more information regarding sponsorship levels upon request. Please let me know who to contact and their contact details. Yours sincerely, Dr Jennifer Mindell, BSc, MB BS, PhD, FFPH, FRCP Clinical senior lecturer Health and Social Surveys Research Group Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health UCL 1-19 Torrington Place London WC1E 6BT Tel. 020 7679 1269 (Internal x41269) Survey doctor: 07770-537238 Fax 020 7813 0242 Email: j.mindell(a)ucl.ac.uk<mailto:j.mindell@ucl.ac.uk> Web: IRIS web page<http://iris.ucl.ac.uk/research/personal/index?upi=JMIND63> Journal of Transport and Health: www.elsevier.com/locate/jth<http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jth>

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[H+T--Friends] Call for posters on innovative uses of the NHTS for TRB 2015 Due September 5, 2014

by Krishnan Viswanathan

Apologies for cross-posting. Please see poster call below. /****** The Task Force on “Understanding New Directions for the National Household Travel Survey” (ABJ45T) is calling for posters showcasing innovative uses of the National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) for presentation at the Transportation Research Board’s 94th Annual Meeting on January 11-15, 2015, in Washington DC. We are particularly (but not uniquely) interested in research, case studies and analyses that use the NHTS: in combination with other large, publically-available datasets; or to understand and illustrate travel patterns using visualization and animation; or to identify and characterize long-distance and rural trips; or to better understand traffic safety & more broadly public health topics related to transportation; or for disaster management; or to analyze transit or active transportation modes; or to analyze salient environmental or energy issues; or to answer questions of interest to MPOs. The objective of this poster session is to bring together planners, analysts, policy makers, and potential users of NHTS data to share / learn about innovative applications of the NHTS. For guidelines on how to present a poster effectively, see onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/archive/Guidelines/PosterPresenters.pdf. Please email a poster outline consisting of a 200 to 300 words abstract with a title and authors’ contact information to* abj45tposterstrb2015(a)gmail.com <abj45tposterstrb2015(a)gmail.com> by September 5, 2014.* Authors will be notified of acceptance by *Friday, September 19, 2014 *and will be asked to confirm their participation by *Friday, September 26, 2014*; at least one author of each selected poster will need to attend the poster session in person. Sales presentations on products or services will not be considered. *This call is outside the usual TRB website and paper review system. Proposals do not need to be submitted using the on-line system and no paper is required to participate in this poster session. For questions, email saphores(a)uci.edu <saphores(a)uci.edu>.* -- Krishnan Viswanathan 5628 Burnside Circle Tallahassee FL 32312

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[H+T--Friends] Foreclosures and health

by Ann Hartell

Column on recent study by Janet Currie of Princeton. "Losing your home to foreclosure can be bad for your health. Watching your neighbors lose their homes to foreclosure can be just as debilitating. And the cost of the additional visits to emergency rooms caused by communitywide foreclosures among those caught up in the foreclosure crisis are staggering. Health and home mortgages? Foreclosures and emergency room visits? Distressed homeowners and kidney failure? Is there really a connection? <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bNYbpAvBir4Pxiacwqm_6l&u=TheHill>That's what I and my colleague Erdal Tekin discovered when we looked specifically at communities hit hardest by the housing crisis in four states---Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey---and compared them to the number of heart attacks and stroke as well as treatment for conditions related to hypertension and mental health. Writ large,our findings <http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ejcurrie/publications/Foreclosure_Health_Jan_201…>indicate that nationwide the 2.82 million foreclosures in 2009 resulted in an additional 2.21 million emergency hospital visits---an increase in hospitalizations that cost a whopping $5.6 billion in that year alone. Economists and health experts alike have documented a relationship between wealth and health, and between changes in wealth and changes in health. But the links between losing one's home or worrying about it when neighbors lose theirs and a rise in visits to hospital emergency rooms may come as a surprise to academics and homeowners. . . .. The relationship between experiencing foreclosure or living in a neighborhood with high foreclosure rates and more frequent and costly visits to the hospital should be factored into our nation's health and housing policies. Distressed homeowners need access to preventative medical care that would allow them to more safely cope with the health threats posed by foreclosure. And institutions that provide home mortgages must be closely regulated to ensure that they do not threaten the financial well being of homeowners with sudden surges in interest rates or other predatory practices. Perhaps it's time for policymakers to consider the role of home mortgages in"Health Impact Assessments " <http://www.cdc.gov/healthyplaces/hia.htm>to improve communities' public health." Read more:http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-budget/213835-health-we… <http://ec.tynt.com/b/rf?id=bNYbpAvBir4Pxiacwqm_6l&u=TheHill> -- Doctoral Student Institute for Multi-Level Governance and Development Department of Socioeconomics WU/Vienna University of Economics and Business Austria http://www.wu.ac.at/mlgd

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[H+T--Friends] Call for abstracts: Moving Active Transportation to Higher Ground: Opportunities for Accelerating the Assessment of Health Impacts

by Eloisa Raynault

Dear Subcommittee friends, This call for abstracts may be of interest: TRB is cosponsoring the Moving Active Transportation to Higher Ground: Opportunities for Accelerating the Assessment of Health Impacts <http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/Conferences/2015/ActiveTransportation/…> on April 13-14, 2015 in Washington, D.C. The conference will bring together professionals in the fields of transportation, urban planning, public health, health care, and health economics to explore the state of the art and state of the practice on quantifying the public health outcomes of active transportation. Learn more online at http://www.trb.org/Calendar/Blurbs/171123.aspx. Conference focus areas include: - Scientific evidence on relationships between active transportation and health - Strategies for data collection and methods of data analysis and modeling that contribute to the quantification of impacts on personal, household, and community health as they relate to various aspects of active travel - Innovative tools and approaches to assess the impacts of active transportation (e.g., health impact assessments of transportation projects or local, regional, and state planning scenarios), as well as tools to better forecast the effects on active transportation Submit abstracts online <http://precis2.preciscentral.com/Public/UserLogin.aspx?P=D805325BAA88D2EA24…> by October 1, 2014. Abstracts are limited in length between 400 and 600 words. All fields in the submission form must be filled out to be considered.

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