Carbonless footprints: Promoting health and climate stabilization through active transportation

Frank, Lawrence D.; Greenwald, Michael J.; Winkelman, Steve; Chapman, James E.; Kavage, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.09.025

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“…6,7 Walking-and cycling-friendly cities are associated with more walking, 8,9 less obesity, 10 lower rates of chronic diseases, 10 less sedentary time in cars, 11 decreased risk of motor vehicle crashes, 12 and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. 10,13 Safe and attractive cities with access to high quality public open space also benefit health by encouraging recreational physical activity 14 and promoting mental health. 15,16 Despite this combination of benefits from creating physical activityfriendly cities, 13 there remains a gap between research, and policy and practice.…”

Section: The Case For Urban Design That Facilitates Active Transportamentioning

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“…10,13 Safe and attractive cities with access to high quality public open space also benefit health by encouraging recreational physical activity 14 and promoting mental health. 15,16 Despite this combination of benefits from creating physical activityfriendly cities, 13 there remains a gap between research, and policy and practice. Sprawling low-density communities with poor access to shops, services, and public transport continue to be built around major cities worldwide.…”

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Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention

Giles-Corti

Sallis

Sugiyama

et al. 2015

J Public Health Pol

139

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Global concerns about rising levels of chronic disease make timely translation of research into policy and practice a priority. There is a need to tackle common risk factors: tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, and harmful alcohol use. Using evidence to inform policy and practice is challenging, often hampered by a poor fit between academic research and the needs of policymakers and practitioners -notably for active living researchers whose objective is to increase population physical activity by changing the ways cities are designed and built. We propose 10 strategies that may facilitate translation of research into health-enhancing urban planning policy. Strategies include interdisciplinary research teams of policymakers and practitioners; undertaking explicitly policy-relevant research; adopting appropriate study designs and methodologies (evaluation of policy initiatives as 'natural experiments'); and adopting dissemination strategies that include knowledge brokers, advocates, and lobbyists. Conducting more policy-relevant research will require training for researchers as well as different rewards in academia.

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Section: The Case For Urban Design That Facilitates Active Transportamentioning

confidence: 99%

Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention

Giles-Corti

Sallis

Sugiyama

et al. 2015

J Public Health Pol

139

105

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“…Cities should strategically improve the transit and nonmotorised mode alternatives to avoid traffic congestion (Frank et al, 2010). Within the area of public policy is where intervention can occur, through the increase in densities and concentration, through mixed use development, housing location, the design of buildings, space and route layouts, PT oriented development and transport development areas, car-free development, and through establishing size thresholds for the availability of services and facilities (Banister & Hickman, 2006).…”

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The Potential of Strava Data to Contribute in Non-Motorised Transport (Nmt) Planning in Johannesburg

Selala¹,

Musakwa²

2016

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Transportation is one of the most fundamental challenges of urban development in the modern world. Cities are currently moving towards sustainable transportation, which includes non-motorised transportation (NMT). The city of Johannesburg has a goal of becoming a smart city, with sustainable development and smart mobility. Encouraging the use of non-motorised transportation and public transport has the potential of reducing the use of private motorised transport and therefor its negative consequences within the city of Johannesburg. There is limited research on cycling and how cyclists interact with cycling infrastructure within the city. The lack of such knowledge hinders proper planning for NMT. This research studies the ability of geolocation based services to provide such information which can be useful in planning for NMT. Strava Metro application is the example of such geolocation based services. The potential of this app to influence planning is investigated. According to the information acquired by Strava Metro, there are more cyclists in suburbs at the centre of Johannesburg and towards the north and to the east, and in Kibler Park at the south western part of the city. There are indications that the numbers of cycling activities recorded by Strava Metro are affected by the availability of gated communities, income levels, crime levels and the provision of infrastructure.

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“…For their part, urban planners are concerned with transport system issues such as mobility and traffic congestion, travel demand and neighborhood development, all of which are likely to influence individuals' travel mode decisions Litman, 2013). Collaborations between researchers from these different fields are becoming increasingly common as the potential for simultaneously achieving public health, urban planning and environmental objectives through active transportation is recognized (Frank et al, 2010;Litman, 2013;Maibach et al, 2009). This potential for "win-win" interventions can be attractive from a policy-maker perspective in these times of economic hardship.…”

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Assessing the health-related outcomes and correlates of active transportation in children and youth

Larouche

2014

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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Carbonless footprints: Promoting health and climate stabilization through active transportation

Cited by 133 publications

References 40 publications

Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention

Translating active living research into policy and practice: One important pathway to chronic disease prevention

The Potential of Strava Data to Contribute in Non-Motorised Transport (Nmt) Planning in Johannesburg

Assessing the health-related outcomes and correlates of active transportation in children and youth

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