This is great stuff. I have a few webinars planned for 2012 that are most likely going to explore issues linking transportation (specifically transit and human services transportation) and public health. These webinars propose solutions for communities (solutions perhaps that do not cost huge amounts, are revenue generating, or at least save money).

Would love to hear more about HIAs and how available they are for smaller communities in terms of cost and ease of doing. How do the communities use the HIAs?

Contact me off list at grossglaser@ctaa.org.

Thanks and happy holidays!

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Megan Wier <Megan.Wier@sfdph.org> wrote:

Hi everyone -

  I wanted to share the following report summarizing the findings of a
  health impact assessment (HIA) of a potential road pricing program in
  San Francisco conducted by the San Francisco Department of Public
  Health's Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability as I thought it
  may be of interest to the list.  The HIA was completed this Fall with
  funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research
  Program.  A summary and detailed technical report of the findings are
  available at:  http://www.sfphes.org/HIA_Road_Pricing.htm.

  For the HIA analysis, SFDPH used a variety of methods to assess
  potential transportation-related health effects - including air
  quality-related premature mortality, traffic noise-related annoyance and
  heart attacks, injury to pedestrians and cyclists, and health benefits
  from active transportation – and evaluated health-related equity effects
  and associated economic value.  The HIA found that transportation system
  operation in San Francisco has substantial health burdens and benefits
  today.  Health burdens are expected to increase in the future owing to
  increasing motor vehicles on local roadways and increasing population
  densities in already congested areas.  However, there are also estimated
  increases in active transportation (walking and biking) that bring some
  health benefits and save lives.  Road pricing, if implemented, could
  moderate but not entirely eliminate the changes associated with a future
  under “business as usual” that includes increasing populations and
  traffic and no new policies or funding to manage the transportation
  system. Road pricing could also generate significant economic value by
  reducing transportation-related adverse effects and increasing walking
  and biking.  HIA recommendations include increasing congestion pricing
  fees where they can reduce health risks (e.g., on spare the air days)
  and investing in targeted infrastructure to reduce pedestrian and
  cyclist injury and increase active transportation.

  Thank you, and happy holidays!
  -------------------------------------------------------------
  Megan L. Wier, MPH, Epidemiologist
  Program on Health, Equity and Sustainability
  San Francisco Department of Public Health
  phone: 415-252-3972, fax: 415-252-3964
  Megan.Wier@sfdph.org
  www.sfphes.org

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