Health impacts of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway: a natural experimental study

Ogilvie D, Panter J, Guell C, Jones A, Mackett R, Griffin S
Record ID 32016000052
English
Authors' objectives: To assess whether or not investment in new high-quality transport infrastructure was associated with an increase in active commuting; wider health impacts of changes in travel behaviour; determinants of the use and uptake of active commuting; and how changes in travel behaviour were distributed in the population and related to the wider social context. Improving transport infrastructure to support walking and cycling on the journey to and from work – active commuting – could help to promote physical activity and improve population health.
Authors' recommendations: These findings provide new empirical support and direction for reconfiguring transport systems to improve population health and reduce health inequalities. They should be combined with evidence from research evaluating related environmental changes in other settings, preferably using longer periods of observation and controlled comparisons, to support more generalisable causal inference.
Details
Project Status: Completed
URL for project: http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/projects/phr/09300106
Year Published: 2016
URL for published report: http://www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk/phr/phr04010/#/abstract
English language abstract: An English language summary is available
Publication Type: Not Assigned
Country: England, United Kingdom
MeSH Terms
  • Humans
  • Health Impact Assessment
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • Walking
  • Public Health
Contact
Organisation Name: NIHR Public Health Research programme
Contact Address: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health and Care Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK
Contact Name: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
Contact Email: journals.library@nihr.ac.uk
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