Citation

Nieuwenhuijsen MJ, Khreis H, Verlinghieri E, Rojas-Rueda D. Environ. Int. 2016; 88: 150-152.

Affiliation

CREAL, Barcelona, Spain.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.envint.2015.12.030

PMID

26760711

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The recent diesel scandal has again highlighted the impact that the transport sector can have on public health.

AIM: To describe the current impact of transport planning on public health.

RESULT: Transport is fundamental to our cities' economic and social development, but causes large health effects and impact through accidents, air pollution, noise, green space and lack of physical activity.

CONCLUSION: There is an urgent need to rebalance and provide better and safer infrastructures and policy support for transport, and particularly, active transport modes, building a new culture for it. A parallel transition in transport and urban planning is needed to improve, in a global and structural way, the relations between urban mobility and health.

Language: en