@article{ref1,
title="Transport and health: a marriage of convenience or an absolute necessity",
journal="Environment international",
year="2016",
author="Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J. and Khreis, Haneen and Verlinghieri, Ersilia and Rojas-Rueda, David",
volume="88",
number="",
pages="150-152",
abstract="BACKGROUND: The recent diesel scandal has again highlighted the impact that the transport sector can have on public health. <br><br>AIM: To describe the current impact of transport planning on public health. <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0160-4120",
doi="10.1016/j.envint.2015.12.030",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2015.12.030"
}