27 Feb
2023
27 Feb
'23
11:50 a.m.
Hi Matt,
I am mostly retired from the transportation world, but I will share what
are solely my own opinions. While there is lots of data about the health
benefits of walking and biking as exercise; and, in contrast, the terrible
health effects of a sedentary life that involves just sitting in a car,
there is insufficient transportation-focused public health research and
especially outreach about how the ordinary, daily practices of how we
transport ourselves from place to place have major health ramifications.
If we think about the major gains in health due to banning cigarette and
alcohol ads on TV and other media, as well as complementary public health
ads, we would do well to take a similar approach around transportation.
Banning car and truck ads, which only show people traveling in unrealistic
settings (such as empty city streets or in pristine mountain settings)
could help steer us away from poor health and 30-to-40,000 road deaths per
year in the US alone.
Well that is my rant. I wish you the best of luck in your studies. This is
important work that you are doing.
Enjoy a lovely afternoon,
Sheryl
On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 12:03 PM Matthew A. Raifman <
matthew.raifman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Hope you are doing well. I'm a PhD Candidate in Environmental Health at
Boston University and looking for some insight on which Transportation
Research journal (parts A-D) is most interested in transport and health
research as I don't see health in any of their descriptions. Separately, I
do find it interesting that health is missing. I'm preparing one of my
dissertation aims for publication and it is focused on the health benefits
of increasing walking and cycling activity in the Greater Boston area using
a k-means clustering approach on top of travel survey data and health
impact assessment.
Thanks for your thoughts! Alternatively the Journal of Transport & Health
seems quite appropriate for this research, but I thought I'd inquire about
TRB publications here as well.
Best,
Matt
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