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by lois.kimmelman＠dot.gov

Hello. Is it possible to limit my emails from this group? I am interested in health & transportation, but don't have time to read so many emails! Thank you. Lois Kimmelman Environmental Protection Specialist Federal Transit Administration, Region 5 200 West Adams St., Suite 320 Chicago, IL 60606 312-353-4060

13 years, 10 months

[H+T--Friends] an alternative to the emails & blog

by Larry Ehl/Transportation Issues Daily

An alternative to a blog is a members-only Facebook page. There's a group of transportation communicators from private and public sectors who established one, and it seems to be working well. It's called Transportation Social Media. Here's the link, but I'm not sure how much of the site a non-member can see. If someone is interested in this and wants to contact the administrator of that page to learn how to do it, let me know. I like it because I can check it a few times a week and quickly catch up on postings. Of course, you'd have to be on FB. For those who want immediate alerts of a posting, you can determine that setting in FB to get an email notice. https://www.facebook.com/groups/transportationsocialmedia/ I do hope the group can move to some new communication form and away from all the emails. Best regards, Larry Ehl Transportation Issues Daily www.transportationissuesdaily.com

13 years, 10 months

[H+T--Friends] guys in white spandex cliche

by Phyllis Orrick

Eric, Those are great links. We'll be sure to post them on the TRBhealth website when we do our next update. People tend to forget that bikes were and are a major source of mobility for the poor. They were the original revolutionary form of transport in that they enabled working people stranded in the industrialized inner cities to escape to the healthier rural areas on their lone days off and WOMEN COULD POWER THEMSELVES WHEREVER THEY WANTED. HG Wells has a very sweet novella about a hapless shop clerk trying to win the heart of a woman cyclist. Lots of bruises and scrapes. Too bad those stats are so old. Is there any eta for updated ones? RITA rocks! Phyllis -- Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#!/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#!/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#!/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#!/trbhealth>

13 years, 10 months

[H+T--Friends] chat room suggestion

by Phyllis Orrick

Jerry, I, too, have an aversion to tracking discussions in long list-serv threads. I always worry I'll miss something or read the same thing twice. As co-coordinator for communications for the subcommittee, I'm interested in coming up with new ways to reach people. When you say "chat room" do you have any specific examples you like? We may be able to add something to the website through google sites, though I'm not sure how private it could be. Or we could start a blog. Thoughts? Everyone? Best, Phyllis -- Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#!/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#!/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#!/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#!/trbhealth>

13 years, 10 months

[H+T--Friends] Costing out bicycle oriented design

by Phyllis Orrick

Marc Thanks for the comments. That's what was so interesting about our survey of building owners in Berkeley, because they had consciously chosen to invest in BOD to various degrees. Two of them (LBL and the Brower Center) went so far as to supply showers. One of the aspects of this type of investment that may be overlooked is that these facilities at a workplace facilitate all types of participation in physical activity: walking to work, or getting off the bus or train one or two stops early and hiking in with comfortable shoes, knowing your office footwear is already there, taking lunchtime or break time walks or even bike rides (as is the case at LAX now that the airport completed its connection to a popular bike trail). So, yes, it's important to keep costs in mind, but also benefits. Cheers, Phyllis -- Communications Director Safe Transportation Research and Education Center<http://www.safetrec.berkeley.edu/> (SafeTREC) University of California Transportation Center <http://www.uctc.net/> (UCTC) Institute for Urban and Regional Development <http://www.iurd.berkeley.edu/> (IURD) California Active Transportation Safety Information Pages<http://catsip.berkeley.edu/> (CATSIP) 2614 Dwight Way UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720-7374 510-643-1779 @transsafe <https://twitter.com/#!/transsafe> @californiaUTC <https://twitter.com/#!/CaliforniaUTC> @IURDBerkeley <https://twitter.com/#!/IURDBerkeley> @trbhealth <https://twitter.com/#!/trbhealth>

13 years, 10 months

[H+T--Friends] AUTO: Susan Herbel is out of the office (returning Mon 04/30/2012)

by Susan Herbel

I am out of the office from Thu 04/19/2012 until Mon 04/30/2012. I will be away from my office until April 30. Please call my cell if you want to reach me. 202.494.5539 Note: This is an automated response to your message "Re: [H+T--Friends] active transportation access to health care facilities" sent on 4/19/2012 8:33:15 AM. This is the only notification you will receive while this person is away.

13 years, 11 months

[H+T--Friends] How about you guys set up a chat room for such talk, far too many emails !!!

by JerryKrueg＠aol.com

Email: JerryKrueg(a)aol.com

13 years, 11 months

[H+T--Friends] Meeting Invitation: Kaiser Permanente Active Transportation Indicators

by Eloisa Raynault

Good morning TRB subcommittee friends, This free webinar may be of interest. To register online, visit https://cc.callinfo.com/cc/s/showReg?udc=1whbwtb60q5ca Best regards, Eloisa Kaiser Permanente Active Transportation Indicators ________________________________ Meeting Description: Please join us for the Kaiser Permanente Active Transportation (AT) Indicators Webinar. During this one-hour meeting, we'll report on the results of a four-month research and outreach effort to identify exemplary efforts in measuring various aspects of Active Transportation. It will include recommended indicators and monitoring techniques for three aspects of AT: the demand for AT at both the population and user levels; the provision and quality of AT facilities; and and how well different places support AT. Following the Webinar, the final report: Measuring Active Transportation: Recommendations for Colorado will be made available for download. Please contact Vickie Jacobsen at Charlier Associates, Inc. (vickie(a)charlier.org) with any questions. <https://cc.callinfo.com/r/1whbwtb60q5ca> Details Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 Time: 08:00 AM MDT Duration: 1 hour Host(s): Vickie Jacobsen <http://www.cbeyond.net>

13 years, 11 months

Re: [H+T--Friends] Help inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal!

by erik.weber＠dot.gov

Megan & Eloisa, In preparing a DOT presentation on Transportation and Health at a panel about social determinants of health and health disparities at NIH for Nation Minority Health Month, I sketched an outline that I think could be informative to planning next year: Transportation's impact on health * Transportation availability & access to care * Transportation options & livable communities * Transportation planning & environmental justice As I mentioned back at the annual meeting, there is nowhere near enough research being done on bullet #1, while nos 2&3 get covered by a lot of disciplines. This subcommittee can help fill that gap. There is a need to look not only at "transportation decisions" which imply planning of projects & future impacts, but transportation use and availability and their impact on individual health outcomes. Arguably, transportation has a much larger impact on health when considered in the immediate term and on an individual scale. To use two specific examples: certainly planning decisions can have large future aggregate impacts on air quality and respiratory health as a result - but how many people in the past year have ended up in emergency care, or, sadly, died because they were unable to get to a preventive appointment like dialysis or other chronic disease treatment? That's a much more immediate and measurable impact, yet no one can really say for sure. That's where, in my opinion, this committee has the biggest opportunity to contribute. I think TCRP made a good foray into this area with B-27 "Cost Benefit Analysis of Providing Non-Emergency Medical Transportation,"<http://www.trb.org/Main/Public/Blurbs/156625.aspx> but this was really only a beginning, and happened 7 years ago now. I would argue that the Public Health sector is pretty strongly engaged in the transportation discussion and it's time now to engage more people in the Health Care & Services sectors. In the long term, I think, that engagement will have benefits for all of the other questions the subcommittee considers. As hospitals, insurance companies, and other care providers better understand the direct impact of transportation on their missions and their bottom lines, the more they will support transportation options and better transportation planning. I mean how many hospitals are built today to enable, much less encourage, walking to and from? I sure haven't seen one recently. To what extent to providers consider transportation access (beyond driving & parking garages) when placing and planning new facilities? These are all very important issues which are not being researched. I hope you will consider this broadening of scope for next year's workshop. -Erik Erik Weber United We Ride -- Office of Program Management Federal Transit Administration U.S. Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Ave, SE, E44-431 Washington, DC 20590 Ph: 202.366.0705 On the Web: www.unitedweride.gov<http://www.unitedweride.gov/> Follow the United We Ride National Resource Center: @NRCtrans<http://twitter.com/NRCtrans> www.fta.dot.gov<http://www.fta.dot.gov/> Follow FTA on Twitter: @FTA_DOT<http://twitter.com/FTA_DOT> P Please consider the environment before printing this email. -----Original Message----- From: h+t--friends-bounces(a)chrispy.net [mailto:h+t--friends-bounces@chrispy.net] On Behalf Of Megan Wier Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 7:28 PM To: h+t--friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net Subject: [H+T--Friends] Help inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal! Help inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal! The Health & Transportation Subcommittee is proposing a half-day workshop for the January 2013 TRB Annual Meeting - and we are looking to our friends for help generating ideas regarding its focus. As many of you know, at the 2012 TRB Annual Meeting there was a full-day workshop entitled "Intersection of Health and Transportation: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and How We Can Better Integrate Health Considerations into Transportation Decisions." More information regarding this workshop is available at the following link: http://pressamp.trb.org/conferenceinteractiveprogram/EventDetails.aspx?ID=2… . The workshop was a great success - and generated a lot of ideas regarding research needs at the intersection of health and transportation - many of which are summarized here: http://www.trbhealth.org/research/research-needs. Examples include: - Effects of travel and travel environments on social cohesion - Parking policy as a mechanism for increasing physical activity - Access needs of different populations - Road safety disparities - Health effects of new and improved infrastructure networks for active transportation modes (e.g., bike ways, sidewalks, trails) - Local impacts of freight movement - Health-related indicators in transportation planning - Creating partnerships between transportation and other health-related sectors As the Subcommittee moves forward with its work, what topics (listed at the above link - OR new ideas that you may have) do you think warrant a deeper exploration and discussion at the upcoming meeting? Are there particular areas or speakers that you think would help the subcommittee to advance research, education, and professional practice in health and transportation? ***Please email Eloisa Raynault (eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org<mailto:eloisa.raynault@apha.org>) and Megan Wier (megan.wier(a)sfdph.org<mailto:megan.wier@sfdph.org>) with your thoughts and ideas by Friday, May 4th, 2012.*** _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net<mailto:H+T--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net> http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends

13 years, 11 months

[H+T--Friends] Help inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal!

by Megan Wier

Help inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal! The Health & Transportation Subcommittee is proposing a half-day workshop for the January 2013 TRB Annual Meeting - and we are looking to our friends for help generating ideas regarding its focus. As many of you know, at the 2012 TRB Annual Meeting there was a full-day workshop entitled "Intersection of Health and Transportation: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and How We Can Better Integrate Health Considerations into Transportation Decisions." More information regarding this workshop is available at the following link: http://pressamp.trb.org/conferenceinteractiveprogram/EventDetails.aspx?ID=2… . The workshop was a great success - and generated a lot of ideas regarding research needs at the intersection of health and transportation - many of which are summarized here: http://www.trbhealth.org/research/research-needs. Examples include: - Effects of travel and travel environments on social cohesion - Parking policy as a mechanism for increasing physical activity - Access needs of different populations - Road safety disparities - Health effects of new and improved infrastructure networks for active transportation modes (e.g., bike ways, sidewalks, trails) - Local impacts of freight movement - Health-related indicators in transportation planning - Creating partnerships between transportation and other health-related sectors As the Subcommittee moves forward with its work, what topics (listed at the above link - OR new ideas that you may have) do you think warrant a deeper exploration and discussion at the upcoming meeting? Are there particular areas or speakers that you think would help the subcommittee to advance research, education, and professional practice in health and transportation? ***Please email Eloisa Raynault (eloisa.raynault(a)apha.org) and Megan Wier (megan.wier(a)sfdph.org) with your thoughts and ideas by Friday, May 4th, 2012.***

13 years, 11 months

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