This serves as a friendly reminder to inform our Subcommittee's TRB 2013 Workshop Proposal. ***Please email me (eloisa.raynault@apha.org) and Megan Wier (megan.wier@sfdph.org) with your thoughts and ideas by Friday, May 4th, 2012. NOTE: to limit the volume of emails in all of our inboxes, do not reply directly to this thread.***

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=22489.

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?

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