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
This may be of interest to some.
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Subject: 2 job openings and a webinar on pathways between
transportation and health
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:23:51 +0000
From: Haneen Khreis <hrk38(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk>
Dear all,
I wanted to share with you two job openings at the University of
Cambridge in our team, please see below. I would appreciate if you can
share with your colleagues and through your channels (@WCTRS
<mailto:wctrs@leeds.ac.uk>: Emma, please share this with the WCTRS
mailing list). The deadline is *14 February 2022.*
Second, I will be giving a webinar on pathways between transportation
and health linkages which builds on some of our joint work, this will be
on the 4^th of February and the details of this are here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/expert-webinar-series-tickets-230456370207.
Please share widely.
Many thanks,
Hanee.
/Please find below details of current vacancies at the MRC Epidemiology
Unit, University of Cambridge./
*Research Associate - Urban geography and analytics (Fixed Term)*This
post is an exciting opportunity for a spatial researcher to play a
leading role in the development of statistical and simulation models of
the built environment, transport and health for cities around the world.
The position will be based in the Unit's multidisciplinary Public Health
Modelling team, and will be part of the multidisciplinary European
Research Council GLASST project. The GLASST project
<https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/glasst/> is led by
Prof. Woodcock, with collaborators at TU Munich, ISGlobal (Barcelona),
University of Chicago, the University of Oxford, and the MRC
BioStatistics Unit. In GLASST we are i) developing methods for
comparison of stochastic simulation models, ii) integrating health into
transport models (travel demand and land use models), iii) developing
city level models of transport for cities in Latin America, India,
Africa, and Europe. The post holder will also contribute to the JIBE
project (co-led with Prof Billie Giles-Corti), a project that brings
together experts from Australia and the UK to link models of health
impacts to built environment measures.
* Closing date *14 February 2022*
* Interviews will likely be held on 9th and 10th March 2022
* Informal enquiries to Professor James Woodcock, jw745(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk
* Full details www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33207/
<https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33207/>
*Research Associate/Senior Research Associate -**Statistician or data
scientist in transport and health modelling (Fixed Term)*
This appointment is an exciting opportunity for a highly quantitative
researcher (data scientist or statistician) in the area of cities and
health to play a leading role in the development of statistical and
simulation models of the built environment, transport and health for
cities around the world. This position will be based in the Unit's
multidisciplinary Public Health Modelling team, and will be part of the
multidisciplinary European Research Council GLASST project. The GLASST
project <https://www.mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk/research/studies/glasst/> is led
by Prof. Woodcock, with collaborators at TU Munich, ISGlobal
(Barcelona), University of Chicago, the University of Oxford, and the
MRC BioStatistics Unit. In GLASST we are i) developing methods for
comparison of stochastic simulation models, ii) integrating health into
transport models (travel demand and land use models), iii) developing
city level models of transport for cities in Latin America, India,
Africa, and Europe. The post holder will also contribute to the JIBE
project (co-led with Prof Billie Giles-Corti), a project that brings
together experts from Australia and the UK to link models of health
impacts to built environment measures.
* Closing date *14 February 2022*
* Interviews will likely be held on 9th and 10th March 2022
* Informal enquiries to Professor James Woodcock, jw745(a)medschl.cam.ac.uk
* Full details www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33205/
<https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/33205/>
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Hello,
On Monday, January 10, 2021, from 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM ET, Dr. Behram Wali
<http://urbandesign4health.com/person/behram-wali>, Lead Research
Scientist, and Dr. Lawrence Frank
<http://urbandesign4health.com/person/lawrence-d-frank>, President from
Urban Design 4 Health, will present three poster sessions at the 101st
Annual Meeting <https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram> of the National
Academies Transportation Research Board (TRB)
<https://www.nationalacademies.org/trb/transportation-research-board> in
Washington, D.C.
Two presentations will be included as part of Poster Session 1150
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>, “Innovations
in Health-Related Transportation Research,” sponsored by the Standing
Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262#:~:text=and%20P…>)
and will focus on advancing knowledge at the intersection of health and
transportation from the standpoints of research, practice, or policy. The
two presentations by UD4H in this session are:
*1) Causal Evaluation of the Health Effects of Light Rail Line: A
Longitudinal Analysis of Objectively Assessed Active Travel and Health Care
Costs (TRAM-22-01481
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>)*
- This presentation will examine the impact of the multi-year Rails &
Health Study
<http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/health-economic-effects-of-light-rai…>
of a light rail transit (LRT) line intervention in Portland, OR on health
care costs after controlling for travel behavior, built-environmental
measures, and attitudinal predispositions/residential choices.
- For a subgroup of treated individuals, the new LRT line decreased
health care costs over time relative to the control group. Limitations and
potential avenues for future research will be discussed.
*2) A Heterogeneity-based National Public Health Assessment Modeling
Framework (TRAM-22-02342
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17257>)*
- Creating new or retrofitting existing built environments encouraging
active travel is challenging. The development of a national health
assessment tool is further complicated by the lack of consistent geospatial
travel behavior and health data at a national level.
- This paper speaks to this major challenge through a USEPA-funded
effort to quantify statistical relationships between the built environment
and active travel outcomes that are nationally generalizable as part of the
development of the National Public Health Assessment Model (N-PHAM)
<http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/hia-plug-in-scenario-planning>.
- Ultimately, the health impact assessment tool presented herein allows
communities to obtain more accurate and granular place-based quantification
of the mechanisms through which the built environment can influence active
travel.
The final UD4H presentation is included as part of Poster Session 1151
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262>, “Expanding
Our COVID-19 Knowledge Base,” and will focus on the COVID-19 epidemic's
profound impact on our lives, featuring research that aims to improve
understanding of these effects on transportation, mobility, and health:
*3) Treating Two Pandemics for the Price of One: Chronic and Infectious
Disease Impacts of the Built and Natural Environment (TRAM-22-00283
<https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/OnlineProgram/Details/17262>)*
- Compact, walkable environments with greenspace support physical
activity and reduce the risk for depression and several obesity-related
chronic diseases, including diabetes and heart disease.
- Recent evidence confirms that these chronic diseases increase the
severity of COVID-19 infection and mortality risk.
- Negative and significant relationships are observed between built and
natural environment features and COVID-19 mortality when accounting for the
effect of chronic disease.
- This project leveraged a set of nationally consistent built and
natural environmental measures from the National Environmental Database
(NED) <http://urbandesign4health.com/projects/ned> developed by Urban
Design 4 Health and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Results presented here suggest that creating walkable environments
with greenspace is associated with reduced risk of chronic disease and
COVID-19 infection/mortality.
*Resources:*
*View: 2022 TRB Annual Meeting Overview
<https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/AnnualMeeting.aspx>*
*Download: 2022 TRB Annual Meeti
<https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Program.aspx>**ng Program
<https://www.trb.org/AnnualMeeting/Program.aspx>*
Jim Chapman, MSCE | Managing Principal
*Urban Design 4 Health *| urbandesign4health.com
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