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Advances in Transportation and Health
Tools, Technologies, Policies, and Developments
- 1st Edition - April 7, 2020
- Editors: Mark Nieuwenhuijsen, Haneen Khreis
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 3 6 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 9 1 3 7 - 8
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 im… Read more
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Request a sales quoteTransportation 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.
- Explores the latest advances on the full spectrum of connections between transport and health
- Offers a "roadmap" on how transport impacts health
- Includes tools for analyzing and estimating the health impacts of transport
- Shows what research and practice gaps need attention
- Includes contributions from leading scholars, practitioners and policymakers
Transport Planning, Urban Planning, and Public Health researchers, professors, students, practitioners, and policy makers
- No. of pages: 548
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 7, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128191361
- eBook ISBN: 9780128191378
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Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen is a Research Professor at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health and a Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. He is a world-leading expert in environmental exposure assessment, epidemiology, and health risk/impact assessment with a strong focus and interest in urban and transport planning and health. He has edited three books on exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology and one on urban and transport planning and health, and co-authored more than 350 papers.
Affiliations and expertise
ISGlobal-CREAL, Barcelona, SpainHK
Haneen Khreis
Haneen Khreis is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University. She researches the health impacts of transport planning and policy. She is experienced in transport planning and engineering, vehicle emissions and air quality monitoring and modelling, exposure assessment, reviews and meta-analyses, health impact and burden of disease assessment, policy options generation, cross-disciplinary collaboration and the science-policy link in transport and health.
Affiliations and expertise
Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, TX, USARead Advances in Transportation and Health on ScienceDirect