Thanks, Sean. Were the baselines and targets disaggregated by race and ethnicity? Various health disparities are more prevalent in different communities and demographic groups, use of various modes of transportation varies also, as does access to outdoor and recreational opportunities, healthful food, and medical facilities. So there are several axes upon which to evaluate and plan for healthful exercise and activities. Robert Garcia at The City Project in Los Angeles has done a lot of excellent work on increasing healthful access for children of color, including within a transportation matix. Marc Brenman mbrenman001(a)comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sean Co" &lt;SCo(a)mtc.ca.gov&gt; To: h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net Sent: Friday, July 6, 2012 10:26:30 AM Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] Health performance measures H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 The NARC report is a great overview of some of the MPOs programs that promote public health. As part of MTC's Regional Transportation Plan, we included a performance measure to increase the number of active individuals as the result of different projects. We monetized the savings due to health care costs and lost productivity due to individuals achieving increased physical activity from a transit, bicycle or pedestrian project. You can see the results and description of the various targets here: http://www.onebayarea.org/plan_bay_area/targets.htm Sean Sean Co Active Transportation Planner Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street Oakland, CA 94607-4700 510-817-5748 Phone 510-817-5848 Fax sco(a)mtc.ca.gov Please consider the environment before printing this email. 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Re: New report on pub. health + transp. planning (Jason Meggs) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 10:32:22 -0700 From: Beth Altshuler &lt;beth(a)raimiassociates.com&gt; Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] New report on pub. health + transp. planning To: TRB Health and Transportation &lt;h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net&gt;et>, ejT6GoogleGp &lt;ej--title-vi(a)googlegroups.com&gt;om>, TomSanchezNUvtu &lt;tom.sanchez(a)vt.edu&gt;du>, RichardMarcantonio &lt;Rmarcantonio(a)publicadvocates.org&gt;rg>, erika(a)narc.org, jenee(a)narc.org Cc: Stuart Cohen &lt;stuart(a)transformca.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;CAG5xnAKtkESMEr-sA_VL7drOoVERmFLA_oS=fFepnWjLf6SF0Q(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Good point Marc! We worked on a report with TransForm for the California Department of Public Health that does try to address those important issues. "Creating Healthy Regional Transportation Plans: A Primer for California's Public Health Community on Regional Transportation Plans and Sustainable Communities Strategies" http://transformca.org/resource/creating-healthy-regional-transportation-pl… Its mostly focused on California but is hopefully interesting for others to read as well. Feel free to contact me or Stuart Cohen from TransForm (cc-ed above) directly if you have any questions. Thanks, Beth *Beth Altshuler,** **MCP, MPH* 2000 Hearst Avenue, Suite 306 Berkeley, CA 94709 main: 510.666.1010 direct: 510.200.0522 mobile: 415.516.2715 *www.raimiassociates.com * *BERKELEY* | LOS ANGELES | RIVERSIDE* * ** ** On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM, &lt;mbrenman001(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote: -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ryoko.chrispy.net/pipermail/h+t--friends/attachments/20120702/db9e0a… ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:28:55 -0500 From: Erika Young &lt;erika(a)narc.org&gt; Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] New report on pub. health + transp. planning To: Beth Altshuler &lt;beth(a)raimiassociates.com&gt;om>, TRB Health and Transportation &lt;h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net&gt;et>, ejT6GoogleGp &lt;ej--title-vi(a)googlegroups.com&gt;om>, TomSanchezNUvtu &lt;tom.sanchez(a)vt.edu&gt;du>, RichardMarcantonio &lt;Rmarcantonio(a)publicadvocates.org&gt;rg>, Jenee Kresge &lt;jenee(a)narc.org&gt; Cc: Stuart Cohen &lt;stuart(a)transformca.org&gt; Message-ID: &lt;359CAB1F096C7B41B47A82CF67836EDC07455D36B2(a)DFW1MBX03.mex07a.mlsrvr.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thanks for the note Beth. You'll find that on the additional resources page we included, the TransForm report is highlighted. Should anyone have additional questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact me directly. Thanks again Eloisa for sending the report around. Erika Young Transportation Director National Association of Regional Councils 777 North Capitol Street NE, Suite 305 Washington, DC 20002 202.986.1032 x212 fax 202.986.1038 www.NARC.org<http://www.narc.org/> Save time and money! Use NARC Affinity Programs!<http://www.narc.org/> Learn at your desk! The Learning Series<http://narc.org/members-only-2/the-learning-series.html> Warning - Electronic Privacy Notice: This e-mail, and any attachments, contains information that is, or may be covered by, the Electronic Communication Privacy Act, Title 18 U.S.C 2510-2521, and also is confidential and proprietary in nature. Please be advised that you are legally prohibited from retaining, using, copying, distributing, or otherwise disclosing this information in any manner other than stated. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by return email. From: Beth Altshuler [mailto:beth@raimiassociates.com] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2012 1:32 PM To: TRB Health and Transportation; ejT6GoogleGp; TomSanchezNUvtu; RichardMarcantonio; Erika Young; Jenee Kresge Cc: Stuart Cohen Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] New report on pub. health + transp. planning Good point Marc! We worked on a report with TransForm for the California Department of Public Health that does try to address those important issues. "Creating Healthy Regional Transportation Plans: A Primer for California's Public Health Community on Regional Transportation Plans and Sustainable Communities Strategies" http://transformca.org/resource/creating-healthy-regional-transportation-pl… Its mostly focused on California but is hopefully interesting for others to read as well. Feel free to contact me or Stuart Cohen from TransForm (cc-ed above) directly if you have any questions. Thanks, Beth Beth Altshuler, MCP, MPH 2000 Hearst Avenue, Suite 306 Berkeley, CA 94709 main: 510.666.1010 direct: 510.200.0522 mobile: 415.516.2715 www.raimiassociates.com <http://www.raimiassociates.com/> BERKELEY | LOS ANGELES | RIVERSIDE [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/27512748/R%2BA_Logo_DO%20NOT%20DELETE.gif] On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM, <mbrenman001@comcast.net<mailto:mbrenman001@comcast.net>> wrote: It is fascinating and dismaying to me that a report like this can be written, with no mention whatsoever of equity, environmental justice, disadvantaged people, discrimination, health disparities, etc. Marc Brenman mbrenman001@comcast.net<mailto:mbrenman001@comcast.net> ________________________________ From: "Eloisa Raynault" <eloisa.raynault@apha.org<mailto:eloisa.raynault@apha.org>> To: h+t--friends@chrispy.net<mailto:h%2Bt--friends@chrispy.net> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 10:45:36 AM Subject: [H+T--Friends] New report on public health and transportation planning A new report from the National Association of Regional Councils (NARC) might be of interest to you and your networks: NARC Report Released, Integrating Public Health and Transportation Planning: Perspectives for MPOs and COGs: NARC recently released a summary report of efforts made by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) to integrate public health factors and considerations into their transportation plans. Additionally, the report offers options through which an MPO can work with its Council of Government (COG) to integrate non-transportation planning activities into the transportation and public health discussion. Click for the report: http://narc.org/wp-content/uploads/Public-Health-and-Transportation-Info-06… _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net<mailto:H%2BT--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net> http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net<mailto:H%2BT--Friends@ryoko.chrispy.net> http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://ryoko.chrispy.net/pipermail/h+t--friends/attachments/20120702/d63a8e… ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 01:55:18 -0700 From: Jason Meggs &lt;jason(a)healthycity.net&gt; Subject: Re: [H+T--Friends] New report on pub. health + transp. planning To: TRB Health and Transportation &lt;h+t--friends(a)chrispy.net&gt; Message-ID: &lt;CAMXZTAword6rnvQyOHpgxF2jKqUKP4H+kqy959aPsP=b3=TF7w(a)mail.gmail.com&gt; Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 With all due respect, and however the report could be improved, it's not technically correct that the report has no mention of any of those issues. For example, the sentence: "The Transportation Research Board (TRB) recently concluded that a disproportionate amount of minorities, elderly, and the poor often postpone or miss preventative, non-emergency healthcare visits when accessibility and transportation options are lacking." The Nashville example discusses "food deserts, which are defined as areas with a high concentration of low income populations, devoid of full-service grocery stores, and have little access to transit, walking and bicycling facilities" which are being addressed in that MPO's RTP through a "section that evaluates projects based on their ability to increase accessibility for low-income and minority communities, transportation choices for the disabled and the aging population, the promotion of physical activity, transportation choices in health impact areas, and the ability to reduce vehicle emissions, among others" Simply by raising the link between transportation, land use and health, such issues are openly invoked, to be addressed. How well they were raised, and how much they will be addressed thanks to any report, is always of concern. Jason On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 1:01 PM, &lt;mbrenman001(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote: ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends End of H+T--Friends Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 ******************************************* . . _______________________________________________ H+T--Friends mailing list H+T--Friends(a)ryoko.chrispy.net http://ryoko.chrispy.net/mailman/listinfo/h+t--friends