Elsevier Advances in Transportation and Health: Tools, Technologies, Policies, and Developments

Product Description 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. Review Comprehensive overview of the linkages between transport and health that presents the technologies, policy and education needed to assess the implications From the Back Cover Transport planning and policy have a large impact on human health through pollution, noise, heat islands, space allocation, physical activity, social exclusion, greenhouse gases and vehicles crashes. These impacts are generally not well recognized by the urban, transport, environment and health sectors and therefore are not incorporated in transport planning and policy. Advances in Transportation and Health: Tools, Technologies, Policies, and Development provides state of the art knowledge on the many linkages between transport and health, the available and needed tools to estimate and evaluate the health impacts of transport, future technologies and developments that can change the direction and magnitude of the health impacts, and policy and education issues that can result in better practice and knowledge translation. It provides valuable information on why and how 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. About the Author 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.