Author Archives: Steve Watkins

The 1st International Conference on Transport and Health is designed as a direct participatory experience. Policy-makers, practitioners and academics from multiple disciplines involved with transport planning and engineering, public health, urban planning, spatial and architectural design, environmental planning, economics and … Continue reading →

A rare opportunity to do a PhD based in both a leading public health university and a world-class transport authority is currently being advertised. The Bloomsbury DTC for the Social Sciences is a consortium of four institutions located in Bloomsbury, … Continue reading →

2 Febuary 2015, Birmingham Public health England has organized a free one-day seminar on Air pollution and Public Health. Public Health England (PHE) are to develop a programme in support of national and local government to reduce the 25,000 deaths … Continue reading →

Environmental Research volume 137  February 2015, Pages 136–140 Highlights The results obtained tend to question the WHO health protection threshold values. This study highlights the importance of traffic noise to the health in large cities. These results serve to highlight … Continue reading →

The promotion of active travel is one of the most effective ways to promote physical activity because it can be built into people’s daily lives. There is evidence from around the world, reviewed in Health on the Move 2 
that people … Continue reading →

Volume 1  – Issue 4 – December 2014 Walking & Cycling: The contributions of health and transport geography Active transport: Why and where do people (not) walk or cycle? Seraphim Alvanides The marginalisation of bicycling in Modernist urban transport planning … Continue reading →

Editorial Jennifer S. Mindell   Excess passenger weight impacts on US transportation systems fuel use (1970–2010) Michelle Tom, Paul Fischbeck, Chris Hendrickson Highlights We estimate excess passenger weight in US transportation systems from 1970 to 2010. We determine excess passenger … Continue reading →

  Journal of Transport & Health – Volume 1 Issue 2 – June 2014 Editorial for JTH Volume 1, Issue 2 Jennifer S. Mindell   TRB Health and Transportation Subcommittee Eloisa Tigre Raynault, Ed Christopher   The impact of health … Continue reading →

France and Sweden (the home nations of Renault and Volvo) have been blocking the possibility of safer lorry design so that such lorries may not appear on European roads until 2025. The revision of this legislation, which allows for the … Continue reading →

Volume 1 Issue 1  – March 2014 Welcome to the Journal of Transport and Health Jennifer S. Mindell   Health on the Move 2. Policies for health-promoting transport J.S. Mindell   The Transport and Health Study Group Stephen J. Watkins   … Continue reading →