TRBHealth September 2014

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[H+T--Friends] "Green Health" Special issue in JPER

by Ann Hartell

Of possible interest to the H+T community. JPER is posting the articles with open access for a limited time: http://jpe.sagepub.com/content/34/2.toc Papers look at how to link health, transportation and schools. Some familiar names among the authors! Related blog post: http://www.planetizen.com/node/71099 Best, Ann -- 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

7 years

[H+T--Friends] New report: Statewide Transportation Planning for Healthy Communities

by Eloisa Raynault

This new report may be of interest. *The Federal Highway Administration has released a report that presents a model for state departments of transportation to integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning and decision making.* The FHWA report, “Statewide Transportation Planning for Healthy Communities,” was developed for FHWA by the USDOT Volpe Center and includes case studies on the California, Iowa, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and North Carolina DOTs and their collaboration with public health partners. It also provides a synthesis of trends, lessons learned, and opportunities for DOT peer agencies and their partners to consider health in transportation planning and programming. The report complements the earlier FHWA report by the same team, “Metropolitan Area Transportation Planning for Healthy Communities,” which evaluates how several MPOs and their partners are collaborating to bring broad consideration of public health into their planning. Both reports and corresponding one-page summaries can be found on the health page of the FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program at: http://www.planning.dot.gov/healthy_communities_desc.asp We encourage you to disseminate the report through your website, newsletter, or networks as you deem appropriate. Please feel free to make use the following language as useful: - Announcements in newsletters, etc. about the new report: The Federal Highway Administration has released a report that presents a model for state departments of transportation to integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning and decision making. The white paper, and a previous, complementary white paper about the metropolitan area planning process, are available from the FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Capacity building program: http://www.planning.dot.gov/healthy_communities_desc.asp - Website links to the health reports: The Federal Highway Administration has developed two reports that present models for state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to integrate public health considerations into their transportation planning and decision making. Both reports and corresponding one-page summaries can be found on the health landing page of the FHWA/FTA Transportation Planning Capacity Building Program: http://www.planning.dot.gov/healthy_communities_desc.asp Please contact FHWA project manager Fred Bowers with any questions or comments about the reports (Frederick.Bowers(a)dot.gov).

7 years, 1 month

[H+T--Friends] America Walks hiring Communication and Public Affairs Mgr.

by Scott Bricker

Greetings - Please see this excellent job opportunity to work at the national level on the intersection between health and transportation. *America Walks is Hiring - Communications / Public Affairs Manager*America Walks is seeking a dynamic professional to serve as the daily manager of communications for America Walks and the Every Body Walk! Collaborative. This person will also serve as a liaison in Washington, DC, attending key partnership and lobbying meetings. Candidates should live in, or be willing to relocate to, the Washington, DC area. See full job description and application information. <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001vKp2U3vT-AeWwREDZxzKCKelnYQq7tOp07m0ioEy_ZE4…> Scott Bricker Director m. 503.757.8342 www.americawalks.org Making America a Great Place to Walk My Twitter: @ssbricker America Walks Twitter: @americawalks *Research shows that people walk more in walkable communities*.

7 years, 1 month

[H+T--Friends] TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee--help needed

by Ed.Christopher＠dot.gov

Hello – The Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board is just around the corner and so is a critical deadline for our Health and Transportation subcommittee. Completing the review of all the papers we received. As of Saturday morning we had 45 percent of the assigned reviews completed, and thanks to those of you who have already completed your reviews! For the rest, they are due on Monday 9/15. Each paper requires a minimum of 3 reviews before we can make presentation and publication recommendations. Each year, we typically have a few papers that fall one review short of completing the process. Therefore, if you are available to review an additional paper next week (Tuesday-Friday), please email Eloisa or me. Include some keywords (e.g. activity, air quality, GIS, modeling, etc) and we will match you with a paper. Thanks in advance Ed Christopher ed.christopher(a)dot.gov Eloisa Raynault eloisaraynault(a)gmail.com

7 years, 1 month

[H+T--Friends] SafeTREC's hiring a new communications coordinator.

by Phyllis ORRICK

Hi all, I'm retiring, and SafeTREC will be hiring a replacement. Details here. Deadline's Sept. 23. A great place to work. http://safetrec.berkeley.edu/content/safetrec-looking-new-communications-co… Phyllis Orrick Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center <http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages <http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) UC Berkeley 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#%21/transsafe>

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