Hi, everyone in the AME70 Health and Transportation listserv,
The Committee on Community Resources and Impacts (AME80) seeks paper
reviewers and the topics overlap with health. More information below.
Best,
Carey
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Dear former ADD20 members & friends,
Since the AME80 Standing Committee on Community Resources and Impacts is
new and therefore still in the process of establishing its membership base,
we are reaching out to y’all to serve as volunteer paper reviewers!
We have been assigned 43 papers, each requiring at least two reviewers and
covering the following broad topics:
· Travel behavior and transportation disadvantaged groups
· Mobility and COVID-19
· Access to services and COVID-19
· Health impacts of transportation
· Socioeconomic impacts, communities, and well being
If you are available to help with this effort, please respond to the Google
Form link by Noon on August 17th: https://forms.gle/ZxQMBxZqhZ7NbbpWA
Also update your profile and peruse reviewer requirements here:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/trbam/default.aspx
Thank you all in advance for your participation in the paper review process
as we work towards the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. Do let us know if you
have any questions!
Alec Biehl (ORNL) & Eleni Bardaka (NCSU)
AME80 Paper Review Coordinators
FYI, for those with journal access--how centering active travel in policy
can improve health outcomes AND reduce greenhouse gas emissions
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From: Neil Maizlish <neil3971(a)comcast.net>
Date: Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 10:05 PM
Subject: Health Benefits of Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in US
Transportation, 2017-2050
To: Neil Maizlish <neil3971(a)comcast.net>
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to share our recently published research article "Health
Benefits of Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in US Transportation,
2017-2050", which appeared February 23, 2022 in the online March issue of
the *American Journal of Public Health*.
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306600
The research compares the health benefits of active transportation versus
electrification of cars as strategies to decarbonize the transportation
sector. We believe this to be the first U.S. national estimate that
integrates physical activity from active transport, air pollution reduction
from tailpipe emissions, and road traffic injuries. As we build back
better and strive for racial and health equity, we hope this information
will inform policy making to improve public health and urgently reduce
carbon emissions in transportation.
Sincerely,
Neil Maizlish
Linda Rudolph
Chengsheng Jiang
*Abstract*
*Health Benefits of Strategies for Carbon Mitigation in US Transportation,
2017**‒**2050*
*Neil Maizlish <https://ajph.aphapublications.org/author/Maizlish%2C+Neil>*
PhD, MPH, *Linda Rudolph
<https://ajph.aphapublications.org/author/Rudolph%2C+Linda>* MD, MPH,
and *Chengsheng
Jiang <https://ajph.aphapublications.org/author/Jiang%2C+Chengsheng>* PhD
*Objectives.* To quantify health benefits and carbon emissions of 2
transportation scenarios that contrast optimum levels of physical activity
from active travel and minimal air pollution from electric cars.
*Methods.* We used data on burden of disease, travel, and vehicle emissions
in the US population and a health impact model to assess health benefits
and harms of physical activity from transportation-related walking and
cycling, fine particulate pollution from car emissions, and road traffic
injuries. We compared baseline travel with walking and cycling a median of
150 weekly minutes for physical activity, and with electric cars that
minimized carbon pollution and fine particulates.
*Results.* In 2050, the target year for carbon neutrality, the active
travel scenario avoided 167 000 deaths and gained 2.5 million
disability-adjusted life years, monetized at $1.6 trillion using the value
of a statistical life. Carbon emissions were reduced by 24% from baseline.
Electric cars avoided 1400 deaths and gained 16 400 disability-adjusted
life years, monetized at $13 billion.
*Conclusions.* To achieve carbon neutrality in transportation and maximize
health benefits, active travel should have a prominent role along with
electric vehicles in national blueprints.
*Am J Public Health*. 2022; 112(3):426– 433.
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306600 Published Online: February 23, 2022
Neil Maizlish, MPH, PhD
Epidemiologist
Berkeley, CA 94707
Email: neil3971(a)comcast.net
Tel. (510) 525-4939
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Kelly Rodgers (she/her)
Executive Director, Streetsmart <http://thinkstreetsmart.org/>
kelly(a)thinkstreetsmart.org
503.442.7165
Portland, OR
*Please note I am working in Pacific Standard Time.*
FYI - Two announcements
On February 28h: from 1-3pm eastern time, USDOT will host a webinar on the RAISE application process, specifically for Environmental Justice Communities, Areas of Persistent Poverty, and Historically Disadvantaged Communities. Link: REGISTER HERE<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fconnectdo…>
CEQ is taking comment on the beta version of their Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST): See the February 18 press release https://www.whitehouse.gov/ceq/news-updates/2022/02/18/ceq-publishes-draft-…. The beta version of the tool, on which the public is being asked to provide feedback over the coming 60 days, will help agencies identify disadvantaged communities to ensure that everyone is receiving the benefits intended from Federal programs.
Apologies for cross-posting
The International Conference on Transport & Health (ICTH) will be holding its 2022 conferences in various global locations due to the uncertainties surrounding COVID-19.
The conference aims to bring researchers and practitioners from transport and health fields together. Proposals from researchers and practitioners are welcome. Various options for presenting your work/ideas are given so as to accommodate various preferences.
Abstracts are due by the 14th of February and the sub-conferences will be held in June, 2022.
http://www.tphlink.com/icth-2022--global-infrastructure.html
Please share this information with your networks.
Sincerely,
Owen Waygood
Professeur agrégé / Associate Professor
Transport durable / Transport Engineering
Département de génie civil, géologique et des mines / Department of Civil, Geological, & Mining Engineering
Polytechnique Montréal
514-340-4711 p.2738