Hello health + transportation aficionados,
A colleague of mine has been working on a tool to make it easier for
planners and community members to understand the impacts of different
transportation strategies on outcomes including health, safety, and more.
Currently, she's looking for reviewers. Please reach out to her directly
if you're interested.
Cheers!
"Abstract
The relationship between certain transportation strategies, such as
complete streets, and the outcomes we want to see in our communities, such
as improved safety and health, have been described and documented in the
research literature. However, this information isn’t readily accessible to
those who need it: planners, elected officials, and the communities they
serve. An interactive web-based tool, StreetWise, will illuminate these
relationships in a visually rich and compelling way using the best evidence
available.
Project description
StreetWise is an online platform that helps people understand the complex
relationship between transportation investments and their effects on
communities. Through a marriage of evidence and insight, StreetWise will
provide planners with the tools they need to implement solutions that work
best for their community. StreetWise will help planners to:
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Evaluate and prioritize investments based on demonstrated successes
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Defend innovation that is contrary to the status quo
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Learn from case studies so they can successfully implement projects
StreetWise seeks to visually illuminate the relationships described in
the research through the use of compelling graphics and standardized,
easy-to-read descriptions. StreetWise users will be able to search by
outcome and by strategy. For each strategy or outcome, StreetWise will
provide a definition and description, with annotated hyperlinks to support
claims. StreetWise will display how transportation strategies affect
outcomes through a performance dashboard. The design will be especially
adept in highlighting how certain strategies offer multiple benefits. Those
who want more detail will be able to click through to a table that displays
the study findings, and further will have the ability to click through to
the study itself when it is available. With every query, StreetWise will
provide links to popular resources so planners can learn how best to
implement the kinds of projects that achieve results.
Planners will be able to search through guidebooks, model codes and
ordinances, and case studies. StreetWise will also have Case Study Briefs:
reports that summarize the case study collection on a particular topic,
complete with insights on how to frame conversations, build relationships,
and anticipate problems. Registered users will be able to upload their own
case studies and reports.
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Audience
StreetWise will arm its primary audience—public and private sector
planning agencies working on local, sub-regional, and regional
transportation plans—with the best available data about the effect of
transportation investments. StreetWise will have a wealth of resources
available to help them learn about how to frame conversations, anticipate
challenges, and problem-solve. Public health professionals exploring the
relationship between transportation investments and health and safety will
also benefit from the tool.
The secondary audience includes the community members, engineers, and
elected officials that the planners are seeking to educate through a
transportation planning process. The graphic user interface will be
designed with this audience in mind: highly visual and informative at a
quick glance. The detail-oriented community member or elected official will
also benefit from the hyperlinked annotations and the ability to click
through to detailed articles.
Academics will appreciate the StreetWise’s ability to increase
publication reach and make research more useful to practitioners.
Furthermore, StreetWise will be created through a collaboration of
academics who will review and index articles for inclusion in the database.
Why Communities Need StreetWise
Transportation systems offer more than just mobility: they drive
economic investment, facilitate active living, provide access to
opportunity (or present a barrier to it), and are a key contributor to
environmental and human health. And yet transportation decisions often are
made using a limited set of mobility measures that don’t reflect the full
impact of potential investments, compromising the ability for people to
make fully informed decisions.
In a growing performance-based transportation planning context, having
the evidence at hand to educate community members and decision-makers about
the effectiveness of different strategies is critical. By increasing the
visibility of evidence, engaging people through a transparent process, and
telling a story about transportation, StreetWise will help communities make
better decisions about transportation investments.
Contact
Kelly Rodgers, Confluence Planning
Kelly(a)confluenceplanning.com
503.442.7165
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-Heidi
503.841.7936
This may be of interest to some on this list. If you are attending feel
free to report back to this list any of your take-a-ways.
March 9-12, “2016 National EJ Conference and Training Program” and
“TheNinth Annual National Conference on Health Disparities: A National
Dialoguefor Building Healthy Communities”Marriott Marquis Washington, DC
http://www.nationalhealthdisparities.com/2016/http://thenejc.org/
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Ed Christopher
Transportation Planning Consultant
708-269-5237
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Call for Abstracts Announced for 2016 URISA GIS and Health Symposium
Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities
The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA), in partnership with the American Public Health Association (APHA), invites abstract submissions for the 2016 GIS and Health Symposium. The theme for this year's Symposium is “Mapping the Way to Healthy Communities”. The event will take place June 1-3, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Abstract submissions are due on March 15, 2016.
The Symposium program will be developed, in large part, from abstracts submitted by the community through this Call. The Committee welcomes the submission of individual papers, complete sessions, and panel discussions on a variety of topics. We are specifically interested in abstracts related to the following topics.
* Connecting health with spatial relationships (and data) - thinking about health in a more spatial format
* Tools for policy-makers, planners, researchers.
* Role of GIS in communicating health information/issues
* Health impact assessments
* Metrics/measuring health outcomes through GIS
* Creating synergy between the public health realm and urban and regional entities carrying out planning, research and policy.
* Focused policy session – cross-sector session addressing the Surgeon General’s National Prevention Strategy “Health in All Policies” approach
* Access to healthcare / health facilities and services
* Agriculture and food systems (access to healthy foods, food safety)
* Active living, recreation, and physical activity from transportation; obesity strategies and interventions
* Health equity (include income considerations, minority groups, aging, persons with disabilities, etc.)
* Urban ecology/urban health – natural and human systems (social ecology; humans and environment)
* Climate change/resiliency - effects on natural and human health/systems
* Emergency preparedness and response
* Health and hazards
* Crime, violence, personal safety/health
* Injuries, disabilities, risk
* Built environment – land use, transportation, resource management systems, Complete Streets, infrastructure, “Healthy Communities” (Applying GIS to Build a Healthy Community); also livability; active communities (transportation and recreation)
* Epidemiology; disease vectors; spread of infectious diseases – emerging technologies and health issues (Ebola response, Zika virus/PAHO)
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* Chronic diseases and the environment, including cancers, diabetes and obesity
* Mobile field data collection mobile field data collection (examples: homeless point in time counts, food safety/restaurant inspections, facility inspections that includes things like hospitals, nursing homes, foster care sites, etc.)
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* Data privacy, confidentiality
* Other related topics
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snip:
"Did you ever notice that you walk faster than your friends, or are you
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you walk; it can predict survival and the “slowing down process” and –
according to a recent study – it can tell how old you are in terms of
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This call for abstracts may be of interest to you and your networks. If you
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ADD50-1 Co-Chair
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Call for Abstracts
2016 Transportation Planning and Air Quality Conference
"The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Air Quality: Confronting the
Challenges at the Global, Regional, and Local Scales"
(Conference webpage: http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq)
<http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq>
The Transportation Research Board Transportation and Air Quality Committee
(ADC20) invite you to submit an extended abstract for the 2016
Transportation Planning and Air Quality (TPAQ) Conference. The spotlight
theme in 2016 will be "The Changing Landscape of Transportation and Air
Quality: Confronting the Challenges at the Global, Regional, and Local
Scales."
We are specifically interested in abstracts related to the following topics:
Multi-modal passenger transportation and air quality issues
Freight and non-road transportation and air quality issues
Greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies
Cost-effectiveness analysis for emission control measures
Emissions and air quality impacts of alternative fuels
Co-benefits of transportation emissions control, air quality mitigation,
and climate change strategies
Innovative vehicle and information technology solutions to transportation
air quality problems
Near-road air quality
Dispersion modeling methods and tools
Exposure and health effects of air pollution
Data for air quality analysis: unconventional sources, collection methods,
quality, scarcity, uncertainty, and novel statistical tools for data
analytics
State-of-the-practice transportation and air quality program implementation
and evaluation
Other emerging topics in transportation and air quality
Extended Abstract Requirements: All extended abstracts must be submitted in
Microsoft Word or PDF format. Each extended abstract must provide
sufficient detail for reviewers to judge its merit, but cannot exceed 5
pages (including figures, tables, and references) in length, single-spaced,
with no less than 11 font size. An extended abstract template is available
at http://register.extension.iastate.edu/2016tpaq/call-for-abstract.
Submission Method: Extended abstracts must be submitted electronically to
upload.2016_Tr.vrhqkopmhx(a)u.box.com.
Submission Deadline: Extended abstracts must be submitted by Monday,
February 15th, 2016. Each extended abstract will be reviewed and comments
will be provided to the author(s) by Thursday, March 31st, 2016.
Conference Co-sponsors:
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)
Minnesota Department of Transportation
Air and Waste Management Association (AWMA)
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) - Transportation & Development
Institute (T&DI)’s Planning, Economics and Finance Committee,
TRB Committee on Alternative Transportation Fuels and Technologies (ADC80)
Cambridge Systematics, Inc.
Eastern Research Group, Inc.
ICF International
Resource Systems Group, Inc.
Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)
Conference History
The TPAQ Conference, formerly Transportation/Land Use Planning and Air
Quality (TLUPAQ), has been held in the past at different locations:
1993 - Danvers, Massachusetts
1997 - Lake Tahoe, California
1998 - Portland, Oregon
1999 - Lake Lanier, Georgia
2001 - Irvine, California
2007 - Orlando, Florida
2009 - Denver, Colorado
2011 - San Antonio, Texas
2014 - Charlotte, North Carolina
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