FYI –
* Webinar: TCRP Report 169: Developing Best-Practice Guidelines for Improving Bus Operator Health and Retention<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UPZupi2JfBaju61nX6yraoJlOjxDi58eJGr1kG3t6M4t…>
June 7, 2016 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
This webinar will walk through the components of Part I: A Transit Workplace Health Protection and Promotion Practitioner's Guide and discuss how to use the PowerPoint presentation, Making the Case for Transit Workplace Health Protection and Promotion, and the Excel worksheet, Transit Operator Workplace Health Protection and Promotion Planning, Evaluation, and ROI Template. Participants will be asked about their experiences with using the report and its tools, and explore establishing an ongoing dialogue on transit workplace health protection and promotion.
While the research and toolkit are targeted particularly to bus and rail transit systems with more than 100 employees who are represented by one or more labor unions, there are useful lessons for systems with all forms of employee relations and of all sizes.
Presenter: Robin Gillespie, Ph.D., MPH, Adjunct Program Director, Health and Safety, Transportation Learning Center
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The National Transit Institute is pleased to announce the following upcoming webinars. Click below for more information or to register:
* Webinar: TCRP Report 181: Labor-Management Partnerships for Public Transportation<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UPZupi2JfBaju61nX6yraoJlOjxDi58eJGr1kG3t6M4t…>
May 5, 2016 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
This webinar will provide public transportation managers and labor union leaders with methods to use to establish, manage, and improve labor-management partnerships. The methods are based on the research and resulting toolkit documented in TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 181: Labor-Management Partnerships for Public Transportation.
The research projects leaders, including labor union and transit management practitioners, will discuss resources and best practices for
* The development of a labor-management partnership charter to start or improve a partnership
* Labor-management partnership guidance that provides specific recommended actions and practices for management and labor union leaders, respectively
* A labor-management partnership workshop framework that can be used to develop a cooperative workshop that prepares management and union representatives with essential skills for establishing and managing labor-management partnerships
Presenters:
Scott Baker, Senior Consulting Manager, AECOM
Douglas Taylor, Labor Bureau, Inc.
William F. Scott, President / Chief Executive Officer and founder of Diversified Workforce Solutions, LLC (DWS)
* Webinar: TCRP Report 169: Developing Best-Practice Guidelines for Improving Bus Operator Health and Retention<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001UPZupi2JfBaju61nX6yraoJlOjxDi58eJGr1kG3t6M4t…>
June 7, 2016 - 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
This webinar will walk through the components of Part I: A Transit Workplace Health Protection and Promotion Practitioner's Guide and discuss how to use the PowerPoint presentation, Making the Case for Transit Workplace Health Protection and Promotion, and the Excel worksheet, Transit Operator Workplace Health Protection and Promotion Planning, Evaluation, and ROI Template. Participants will be asked about their experiences with using the report and its tools, and explore establishing an ongoing dialogue on transit workplace health protection and promotion.
While the research and toolkit are targeted particularly to bus and rail transit systems with more than 100 employees who are represented by one or more labor unions, there are useful lessons for systems with all forms of employee relations and of all sizes.
Presenter: Robin Gillespie, Ph.D., MPH, Adjunct Program Director, Health and Safety, Transportation Learning Center
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> Subject: NAS Call for Abstracts on "Healthcare & Transportation," due 4/17 // Workshop + Webcast, June 6-7
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> Workshop & Webcast
> Exploring Data and Metrics of Value at the Intersection of Health Care and Transportation
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> Submit Abstracts by April 17, 2016.
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> TRB and the Health and Medicine Division, both of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, are holding a workshop + webcast on June 6-7, 2016 in Washington, D.C. that will explore the interface of health care and transportation. Submit abstracts by April 17, 2016.
>
> The workshop + webcast will showcase local examples of formal and informal health care and transportation partnerships; explore ways to use data to estimate the value of transportation to health care in various settings; examine performance measures pertinent to the relationship between transit/transportation services and health care outcomes; and, discuss what is needed to calculate the return on investment in terms of health outcomes. (For example: Does providing transportation access lead to improved health?). A workshop summary based on the day’s proceedings will be prepared by an independent rapporteur.
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> This Summary Last Modified On: 3/22/2016
In case you missed this news...
*FHWA Announces New Safety Performance Measures, Including
Bicycle-Pedestrian Safety*
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) today published new safety performance measures (
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2016-03-15/pdf/2016-05190.pdf) as part of
its national safety program, calling for state and regional targets to help
reduce highway deaths and injuries, including for the first time, those
among people walking and bicycling. The new regulations call for improved
data on roadway features and a consistent definition of serious injuries.
“The Department has been working hard with communities around the country
to reduce the growing number of pedestrian and bicyclist injuries and
fatalities,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. “Having a
uniform national performance measure will help us all work together to save
lives.”
The addition of bicycle-pedestrian performance measures is an
acknowledgement that non-motorized safety is of particular concern and
improving conditions and safety for bicycling and walking will help create
an integrated, intermodal transportation system that provides travelers
with real choices.
The safety performance measures come as part of new rules to implement the
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) performance
management requirements for safety and update the Highway Safety
Improvement Program (HSIP). Major provisions involve requirements for all
states to evaluate and report more effectively on surface transportation
safety across the country.
“Together, the rules will enhance a data-driven approach to making safety
decisions, improve collaboration across a wide range of safety partners,
and provide transparency for the American public,” said Federal Highway
Administrator Gregory Nadeau. “Most importantly, the rules will help save
lives as states set and report on safety targets.”
The regulations will require reporting on the number and rate of all
traffic fatalities and serious injuries, as well as a combined
non-motorized pedestrian and bicycle injury and fatality measure. States
and regional targets and progress on all five measures will be available
through a public reporting system and will be aggregated at the national
level. State departments of transportation and metropolitan planning
organizations will be required to use the information in their investment
programming and will be accountable to achieving annual their targets. The
final rule also simplifies the method of determining target achievement.
These rules implement not only the MAP-21 requirements, but also
modifications called for by the more recent Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation (FAST) Act. With the recent increase in roadway deaths, the
new approach to FHWA safety programs is timely. It also marks an important
change in the management of the Federal-Aid highway program to become
performance-driven.
Dear friends of the TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee,
I just posted the meeting minutes from the Annual Meeting on the Health and
Transportation website (www.trbhealth.org) along with other related
documents. You can find them on the home page of the website.
The related documents include the meeting agenda, slides, the
Subcommittee's annual report, and the meeting minutes from the Arterials
and Health Task Force.
I'm also attaching the notes to this e-mail. Feel free to get in touch if
there's anything you would like me to include in the notes or to post on
the group's website.
Until next time!
Best,
Carey
--
Carolyn McAndrews
Assistant Professor, Department of Planning and Design
College of Architecture and Planning
University of Colorado Denver
CU Building 320BB
carolyn.mcandrews(a)ucdenver.edu
http://careymcandrews.org
This may be of interest to many of those on this list.
Register Now! Experts to speak on self-driving cars, a transportation game
changer | March 22, 2016
Registration<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/behind-the-wheel-public-health-and-safety-of-a…>
is now open for the Daniel J. Raskin Memorial Symposium on Injury
Prevention, Behind the Wheel: Public Health and Safety of Autonomous Cars
on Tuesday, March 22, at 3 p.m. in Sheldon Hall, W1214.
Experts from Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
and more will speak on self-driving cars, a transportation game changer.
The symposium is free and open to the public, however registration is
required. To register and reserve your seat, visit
https://injurysymposium.eventbrite.com<https://injurysymposium.eventbrite.com/>.
All registered guests are invited to a private reception immediately
following the symposium.
Please forward this email to anyone you believe would be interested in
attending.
The moderator for the 2016 Raskin Memorial Symposium is Mark R. Rosekind,
PhD, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA).
Rosekind will moderate the panel "Behind the Wheel: Public Health and
Safety of Autonomous Cars," featuring experts, including:
* Nat Beuse, MS (Vehicle Safety Research at the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration)
* Chris Gerdes, PhD (Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University)
* Ron Medford, MS (Self-Driving Cars at Google)
* Bryan Reimer, PhD (New England University Transportation Center at MIT;
Research Scientist, MIT AgeLab)
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Ed Christopher
This may be of interest.
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you are well. Please save the date - May 10, 2016 - for the NTSB
Pedestrian Safety Forum. This forum, organized by the capable NTSB staff
and chaired by me, will address various aspects of pedestrian safety such
as exposure and risk data, urban planning and policy, infrastructure
design, other safety interventions, and vehicle-based solutions.
NTSB Pedestrian Safety Forum
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
9 am - 5 pm ET
NTSB Board Room and Conference Center
429 L'Enfant Plaza, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20594
http://www.ntsb.gov
For more information and to receive future emails about the forum, please
email John Brown at john.brown(a)ntsb.gov<mailto:john.brown@ntsb.gov>
Many thanks and I look forward to seeing you on May 10!
Sincerely, Bella Dinh-Zarr
T. Bella Dinh-Zarr, PhD, MPH
Vice Chairman
National Transportation Safety Board
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Ed Christopher
Would anyone like to write a short article about this tool for the Journal of Transport and Health?
Regards,
Jenny
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Reader in Public Health
Health and Social Surveys Research Group
Research Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
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Health lead for the UCL Transport Institute
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Dear Eloisa Raynault
Hope all is well, below is another call for papers for a Special Issue on Transportation and Health Governance.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/case-studies-on-transport-policy/call-for-…
I greatly appreciate if you circulate. Thanks so much
Best regards, Sam
Dr. O. (Sam) A. Elrahman, Sr. Research Scholar
Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment (CITE)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Tel.: 518-276-6360/8306 Cel: 518-892-8212
Email: oae(a)alum.rpi.edu OR Elraho(a)rpi.edu
On Tue, 8 Mar, 2016 at 8:07 PM, Eloisa Raynault <eloisaraynault(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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This may be of interest to you and your networks.
***
Exploring Data and Metrics of Value at the Intersection of Health Care and Transportation
Submit Abstracts by March 31, 2016
TRB and the Health and Medicine Division, both of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, are holding a workshop on April 12-13, 2016 in Washington, D.C. that will explore the interface of health care and transportation. Submit abstracts by March 31, 2016.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2016/transitandhealthcarea…
The workshop will showcase local examples of formal and informal health care and transportation partnerships; explore ways to use data to estimate the value of transportation to health care in various settings; examine performance measures pertinent to the relationship between transit/transportation services and health care outcomes; and, discuss what is needed to calculate the return on investment in terms of health outcomes. (For example: Does providing transportation access lead to improved health?). A workshop summary based on the day’s proceedings will be prepared by an independent rapporteur.
This may be of interest to you and your networks.
***
Exploring Data and Metrics of Value at the Intersection of Health Care and
Transportation
Submit Abstracts by March 31, 2016
TRB and the Health and Medicine Division, both of the National Academies of
Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, are holding a workshop on April 12-13,
2016 in Washington, D.C. that will explore the interface of health care and
transportation. Submit abstracts by March 31, 2016.
http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conferences/2016/transitandhealthcarea…
The workshop will showcase local examples of formal and informal health
care and transportation partnerships; explore ways to use data to estimate
the value of transportation to health care in various settings; examine
performance measures pertinent to the relationship between
transit/transportation services and health care outcomes; and, discuss what
is needed to calculate the return on investment in terms of health
outcomes. (For example: Does providing transportation access lead to
improved health?). A workshop summary based on the day’s proceedings will
be prepared by an independent rapporteur.