Transportation and Health

Provides state-of-the-art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available tools needed to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies, the developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and the policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation.

The book provides valuable information on how and why to take health into consideration in transport planning and policy, showing how to estimate the impacts of transport on health in planning, policymaking, education and workforce development.

Key Features

Explores the latest advances on the full spectrum of connections between transport and health

Offers a "roadmap" on how transport impacts health

Includes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transport

Shows what research and practice gaps need attention

Includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers