The work between policy and practice
Road safety progress depends on more than commitments. It requires sustained action, strong partnerships, and accountability to ensure that policies…
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Transport & Health 2025 – prioritising health in transport and planning policy
Transport networks in the UK contribute to a number of health hazards and health inequalities in both urban and rural areas. Poverty and disadvantage is strongly correlated with air pollution, noise and road collisions. Vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, people with mental disability or long-term illnesses are also more exposed to the health-related externalities of the transport system.
However, transport and spatial planning can be powerful tools for improving the conditions that influence health. Using these tools effectively requires engagement with the public health evidence base, the technical aspects of planning and integrated community development approaches that promote active travel and well-connected places.
https://www.transportandhealth.uk/
The keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops will share best practice on:
- Air quality and noise management initiatives
- Public transport improvement and integration
- Delivering active travel infrastructure
- Behaviour change initiatives and incentives
- Settlements that encourage activity and provide connectivity
- Transport equality and inclusion
- Promoting evidence-based approaches through knowledge and skills transfer
- Tackling polarisation and populism
- Cross sector collaboration: frameworks and funding
- Maximising co-benefits through active planning
- Improving the health ‘viability’ of neighbourhoods
- Traffic restraint and demand management
- Land use, housing, social cohesion and transport
