TY - GEN
T1 - Health related benefits of non-motorised transport
T2 - 4th Conference on Sustainable Urban Mobility, CSUM 2018
AU - Skayannis, Pantoleon
AU - Goudas, Marios
AU - Crone, Diane
AU - Cavill, Nick
AU - Kahlmeier, Sonja
AU - Mitsiadi, Vasilena
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019.
PY - 2018/12/12
Y1 - 2018/12/12
N2 - It has been several years now that research coming from various disciplines such as sports science, medicine, urban planning and transport planning has provided strong evidence that sustainable urban mobility (SUM) is not only beneficial to the function of the city but to the human body too. As SUM includes not merely public transport but physical activity (walking, cycling, etc.) and as these can be further combined with exercise, an active urban environment can be created that can contribute to human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT), a software which includes an algorithm designed to estimate the long–term health and economic benefit of a given population’s cycling or walking. This paper shows how the HEAT has been applied to the case of the city of Trikala, Greece. It is based on bicycle traffic measurements recorded on September 2016, in Trikala, in the context of the SPACE Erasmus+ EU Programme. The result shows how and how much the increase of bicycle traffic (distance, hours, frequency of use) in the future can increase life expectancy and reduce health care costs, thus being a beneficial investment. The paper, also includes several ‘what if scenarios’ related to walking, so as to provide a broader picture of a possible urban active environment in the city.
AB - It has been several years now that research coming from various disciplines such as sports science, medicine, urban planning and transport planning has provided strong evidence that sustainable urban mobility (SUM) is not only beneficial to the function of the city but to the human body too. As SUM includes not merely public transport but physical activity (walking, cycling, etc.) and as these can be further combined with exercise, an active urban environment can be created that can contribute to human health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has developed the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT), a software which includes an algorithm designed to estimate the long–term health and economic benefit of a given population’s cycling or walking. This paper shows how the HEAT has been applied to the case of the city of Trikala, Greece. It is based on bicycle traffic measurements recorded on September 2016, in Trikala, in the context of the SPACE Erasmus+ EU Programme. The result shows how and how much the increase of bicycle traffic (distance, hours, frequency of use) in the future can increase life expectancy and reduce health care costs, thus being a beneficial investment. The paper, also includes several ‘what if scenarios’ related to walking, so as to provide a broader picture of a possible urban active environment in the city.
KW - Health economic assessment tool
KW - Non-motorised transport
KW - Physical activity
KW - Sustainable urban mobility
KW - Trikala
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85058992881&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_95
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-02305-8_95
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85058992881
SN - 9783030023041
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 789
EP - 796
BT - Data Analytics
A2 - Nathanail, Eftihia G.
A2 - Karakikes, Ioannis D.
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 24 May 2018 through 25 May 2018
ER -
