Essential evidence - the benefits of cycling and walking
Date submitted: 4 August 2009
Dr. Adrian Davis, a leading source of information on the benefits of walking and cycling to health, currently working for Active Bristol and providing support to the Bristol Cycling City project, would like to share an evidence base he is compiling of key peer-reviewed literature, often from a public health evidence base, which can be used to strengthen the case for current policies and practice promoting active travel.
Please see full list below:
Please see full list below:
- 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
- Illness arising from road transport
- Cost benefit analysis of walking and cycle track networks
More Information: http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Transport-Streets/Walking-Cycling/cycling-in-bristol/essential-evidence/essential-evidence
