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Essential evidence: the benefits of walking and cycling
Posted 22 July 2009 15:16 by jamie
Dr Adrian Davis, 'Public Health support to City Development' at Bristol City Council is putting together an interesting set of punchy one-siders that provide peer-reviewed evidence for the benefits of cycling and walking.
He adds to them on a weekly basis on the Bristol City Council website.
Here are the topics so far:- Safety in numbers
- Segmentation in behaviour change
- Evidence hierarchy
- Cycling and all cause mortality
- Impact of highway traffic capacity reductions
- Walking to health
- Weight gain and car use
- Physical activity – the best buy in public health
- Bus use and deregulation
- Cycle commuting
- Walkable communities
- Life change events and physical activity participation
- Cycling reduces absenteeism at the workplace
- A healthy school journey
- Vision Zero
- Objective monitoring, children's travel and physical fitness
- Using pedometers to increase physical activity and improve health
- The role of habit in travel behaviour
- Unintended health impacts of road transport policies and interventions
- Health Impact Assessment (HIA)
- Obtaining a driving licence and interventions to influence the decision
- Inverse Care Law
- Mass Community Cycling Events
- Economic Benefits of Cycling
- Cycling Safety – Lessons from The Netherlands, Denmark and Germany
- Effect of crime and neighbourhood on physical activity
- Air Pollution
- Public Transport and Physical Activity
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