Advances in Transportation and Health

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.
Explores the latest advances on the full spectrum of connections between transport and healthOffers a "roadmap" on how transport impacts healthIncludes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transportShows what research and practice gaps need attentionIncludes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers