Unlocking the

value of walking

and cycling for

health

Christian SchweizerTechnical Officer, Transport and Health

International Transport Forum, 18 May 2016, Leipzig

The health map of Europe

© EHFG 2014 - Floris Oudshoorn - ComicHouse.nl

Health in IPCC’s climate change mitigation

strategies for transport

Source: World Health Organization, 2011. Health co-benefits of climate change mitigation - Transport sector,

Need to facilitate the integration of health in

transport appraisals and planning

• Need to make health benefits of cycling and

walking “visible” to transport and urban

planners

• Need to speak their “language”

• Importance of economic analysis in transport

planning

Health Economic Assessment Tools

(HEAT) for walking and cycling

http://www.heatwalkingcycling.org

Requires user input

Case studies

• England

– Part of official toolbox for the assessment of

transport projects (WebTAG)

• Austria

– Health effects of national cycling masterplan

• USA

– Evaluation of 4 FHWA nonmotorized

transportation pilot projects

• London

– Action plan, recommendation for using HEAT in

business cases

• EU Transport Council 2015, Barcelona,

Modena, Nantes, Kuopio, Pärnu, …

THE PEP Pan-European master

plan for cycling• Supporting joint action for integration of

cycling issues in

– national and international policies

– funding schemes of IFIs and pan-

European infrastructure plans

• Concrete measures and recommendations

for Member States, UNECE, WHO, IFIs and

EU.

• To be launched at 5th High-level Meeting on

Transport, Health and Environment in 2019

in Vienna

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Contact details

• Christian Schweizer, Technical Officer, Transport and Health, World

Health Organization Regional Office for Europe,

schweizerc@who.int, www.euro.who.int/transport

• Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme

(THE PEP), secretariat@thepep.org, www.thepep.org