Advances in Transportation and Health

Mark Nieuwenhuijsen is a Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health and a Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. He is a world-leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment with a strong focus and interest in urban and transport planning and health. He has edited three books on exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology and one on urban and transport planning and health, and co-authored more than 350 papers. Haneen Khreis is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. She researches the health impacts of transport planning and policy. She is experienced in transport planning and engineering, vehicle emissions and air quality monitoring and modelling, exposure assessment, reviews and meta-analyses, health impact and burden of disease assessment, policy options generation, cross-disciplinary collaboration and the science-policy link in transport and health.

• Part I: Introduction and setting1. Transport and health; an introductionPart II Transport and effects on health2. Perspectives on road safety through the lens of traffic crashesin the United States3. Traffic, air pollution, and health4. Transport, noise, and health5. Active transportation, physical activity, and health6. Public transport and health7. Transport and community severance8. A justice perspective on transport and healthPart III Recent and future developments9. New transport technologies and health10. Bike-sharing systems and health11. E-bikes—good for public health?12. Active transport to and from schoolPart IV Tools and design13. Intervention studies in transport and emerging evidence14. Health impact assessment of transport planning and policy15. The WHO health economic assessment tool for walking andcycling: how to quantify impacts of active mobility16. Incorporating health impacts in transportation projectdecision-making in the United States17. Community design, street networks, and public healthPart V Policy education and workforce18. Barriers and enablers to change in transport and health19. Moving to health transport: the drivers of transformationalchange - a view from Scotland20. The role of cross-disciplinary education, training, and workforcedevelopment at the intersection of transportation and healthPart VI Conclusions21. Transport and health; present and future