Advances in transportation and health : tools, technologies, policies, and developments
Advances in transportation and health
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | xv, 481 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Utgave | First edition
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Title page -- Table of Contents -- Copyright -- List of contributors -- Part I: Introduction and setting -- Chapter one. Transport and health -- an introduction -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Trends -- Adverse health impacts -- Land use, transport, and health -- Reduce car dependency and move toward public and active transportation -- Land use changes -- Policy assessment changes -- Conclusion -- References -- Further reading -- Part II: Transport and effects on health; Chapter two. Perspectives on road safety through the lens of traffic crashes in the United States -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Traffic crash fatalities: a global comparison -- The impact of risk and exposure on traffic crash frequency -- Infrastructure risk reduction -- Behavioral risk reduction -- Designing for safe systems -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter three. Traffic, air pollution, and health -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Air pollution and exposure assessment -- Health effects -- Air quality guidelines; Burden of disease and health impact assessments -- Impact of emerging technologies -- Best practices and overlap with other agenda -- Environmental justice -- Research gaps -- References -- Chapter four. Transport, noise, and health -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- What are the mechanisms by which noise can lead to disease? -- Noise-induced annoyance and sleep disturbances -- Transportation noise and lifestyle factors -- Transportation noise and risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease -- Transportation noise and cancer -- Transportation noise, cognition, and mental health; Transportation noise and pregnancy outcomes -- Noise sources and mitigation measures -- References -- Chapter five. Active transportation, physical activity, and health -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- A body built to move -- The rise of physical inactivity -- Studies of physical activity and health -- Physical activity and the brain -- Active transport and health -- Is the association cause and effect? -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter six. Public transport and health -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Air pollution -- Road traffic injuries -- Physical activity; Modal shift -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter seven. Transport and community severance -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- What is community severance? -- What are the effects of community severance? -- What are the health impacts of these effects? -- Cumulative impacts and inequalities -- What tools are available to assess community severance? -- Policies to remove or reduce community severance -- Summary -- References -- Chapter eight. A justice perspective on transport and health -- Abstract -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Disparities, inequalities, inequities, and justice. - "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."
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| Emner | Transportation and state.
Transportation - Planning - Health aspects. transport samferdsel planlegging helse folkehelse støy forurensing fysisk aktivitet trafikksikkerhet trafikkulykker |
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| ISBN | 9780128191361
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