
Transportation and Public Health
An Integrated Approach to Policy, Planning, and Implementation
Description
Key Features
- Bridges the gap between transport and public health, two fields that have traditionally traveled on separate and parallel tracks
- Synthesizes key research and practice literature
- Includes teaching and learning aids, such as case studies, chapter objectives, summaries and discussion questions
Readership
Researchers and graduate students in transportation planning, public health, urban planning, and environmental science. Transportation planners, urban planners, and public health practitioners. Transportation, public health, and city public officials and policymakers
Table of Contents
1. Transportation and public health: An introduction
2. Dimensions of public health affected and influenced by transportation
3. Institutional frameworks: Laying the groundwork for mainstreaming public health into transportation decision-making
4. Air and water pollution: An important nexus of transportation and health
5. Community development, active transportation and public health
6. Transportation design, operations, and public health
7. Transportation system safety and public health
8. Transportation
9. Incorporating public health concerns into transportation decision making
Product details
- No. of pages: 338
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2019
- Published: June 15, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128172964
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128167748
About the Authors
M. D. Meyer
Affiliations and Expertise
O. A. Elrahman
Affiliations and Expertise
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