The Right Path
Monthly Newsletter
Pursuing Healthy Mobility
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Mission
The
International Professional Association for Transport & Health (IPATH) is a platform for cross-disciplinary and multi-sector professionals working at the intersection of transport and health. The aim of PATH is to share information, exchange ideas, and foster collaboration to improve health, quality of life and well-being in communities by advocating for the integration of health in the urban and transport agendas.
Vision
- To create an accepted professional discipline of transport and health
- To support and encourage research and best practices aimed at integrating health into the transport and urban planning and strategic decision-making processes
- To build a cohesive community of cross-disciplinary and multi-sector professionals
IPATH Membership including THSG goes from 1 January through December 31, renewed annually
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As an IPATH member, you are automatically a member of the
Transport & Health Science Group (THSG) and access to a copy of Health on the Move 2. If you are not receiving emails from THSG or have not yet received a welcome letter as a new member, please contact Liz Davies, thsgchair@gmail.com
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Hello Folks;
It's hard to believe that 2018 is quickly drawing to a close along with year two since the inception of IPATH. In an effort to promote innovation and diversity, a few of our members will be fulfilling their two year limited term on the Board of Directors (BOD). If you're interested in becoming a voice of transport and health, please contact me at
alalmasy@gmail.com. You must be an IPATH member to apply and to be considered for a seat on the BOD.
Other news to report is the work ongoing as a result of ICTH 2018-Mackinac Island. The Transportation Public Health Link (TPH Link), IPATH and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) are working in collaboration to create a Transport and Health Performance Metric Guidebook. This project deliverable is the result of three working sessions held during ICTH.
The first day focused on current quantitative tools in practice, what’s missing and a feasible strategy to pulling the guidance together as a published deliverable. Teams met on day two of ICTH to determine the tools for inclusion, timeline and review the editorial process in preparation for the published document. During the final day of ICTH, teams held a debriefing of project deliverables.
To date, the team have had their first organizing conference call that was filed with a lot of creative energy and enthusiasm. Over the next couple of months, authors will be recruited to serve on chapter teams. If you're interested in being part of this dynamic project, please complete the
SURVEY to indicate your preferences. The next conference bimonthly conference call is scheduled for December 11th. Please pass this opportunity on to others. All are welcome!
That's it for now. For those of you in the US and Canada, Happy Thanksgiving!!
Regards,
Al Almasy
President, IPATH Board of Directors
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Congratulations IPATH Board Vice President!
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Institute Appoints Founding Fellows
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The MacEachen Institute for Public Policy and Governance has appointed
Ahsan Habib, PhD, School of Planning , Department of Civil and Resource Engineering, as one of four Dalhousie University academics to serve as an
Institute Founding Fellow. The Founding Fellows will play an important role in shaping the Institute’s agenda and profile, and ensuring it becomes the ‘go-to’ place for policy discussion and analysis, regionally and nationally. The two-year appointment will start July 2018 and will end in June 2020. Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
What a wonderful honor. We are so proud of you Ahsan!
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Greater Washington Partnership Leverages Citilabs' Sugar Access to Measure Access to Essential Destinations
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"Access to destinations has long been an important topic in city planning, but it has just recently become easier to quantify with tools like Sugar Access. Accessibility measurement simultaneously considers the why, where and the how of connecting, and provides the ability for land use and transportation planners to know what to change to optimize connectivity. If people have easy access to local destinations, they don’t have to travel greater distances, will more likely spend their money locally, and could even choose to walk. In this way, accessibility affects the number of vehicles on the road, time spent traveling, travel distances, the ability to travel by different modes, and even the quality and economic productivity of a place." Read the full story by clicking
HERE.
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Active People, Healthy Nation
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Active People, Healthy Nation is a national initiative led by CDC to help 27 million Americans become more physically active by 2027. The goal of Active People, Healthy Nation is to achieve a major, sustained improvement in the physical activity levels of US youth and adults over the next decade. To meet our goal, we envision using a recognized public health strategy to improve population health through small shifts (or “pushes”) in the physical activity behavior of many people (allowing them to move forward one level of activity or to “level-up”). I am very pleased to let all of you know that this effort has now coalesced with the launch of a new
Active People, Healthy Nation Website. These resources will be augmented and added to as the initiative expands and gains momentum.
In previous public health models, linkages and collaboration between sectors were encouraged, but not always well supported. New public health models emphasize that collaborations among partners need an efficient structure and support. To be successful, Active People, Healthy Nation will promote more extensive coordination and engagement among stakeholders at national, state, and community levels representing a variety of sectors (e.g.,transportation, community planning and design, neighborhood development, business, health care, public health) to maximize efficiency and leverage resources.
As a first step in this process, I am also very excited to announce a second key resource represented by three new sets of CDC grant recipients – at the state health department, university, and community-based organizations levels – all of whom largely share one overarching physical activity strategy:
Collaborate with partners to connect sidewalks, paths, bicycle routes, public transit (i.e. activity-friendly routes) with homes, early care and education, schools, work sites, parks, or recreation centers (i.e. everyday destinations) through implementing master plans, complete streets and zoning policies, and other land use interventions.
Information about these 62 new grant recipients is available at the following websites:
- State Physical Activity and Nutrition Program (SPAN) - CDC funds 16 state recipients to implement evidence-based strategies at state and local levels to improve physical activity and nutrition.
- High Obesity Program (HOP) - CDC funds 15 land grant universities to work with community extension services to increase access to safe and accessible places for physical activity and sources of healthier food in counties that have more than 40% of adults with obesity.
- Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) - CDC funds 31 recipients to reduce health disparities among racial and ethnic populations with the highest burden of chronic disease (i.e., heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, and obesity) through culturally tailored interventions to address preventable risk behaviors (i.e., poor nutrition and physical inactivity).
Chris Kochtitzky, MSP
Senior Advisor, Physical Activity Translation and Evaluation Team
Physcal Activity and Health Branch
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC
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Equity Education in a Comic Strip
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"For many transportation professionals, social and racial equity can be a challenging issue to define and apply in practice. Thankfully, engineer/illustrator
Ryan Martinson developed this
12-page comic, first published in a Canadian Institute for Transportation Engineers newsletter, to help professionals understand not only why equity in transportation matters, but how to address equity in their process and decisions." Source:
Street Smart
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November 29th at 2pm Eastern, 11am Pacific
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Activity-friendly and walkable communities are designed in ways that make physical activity easier and more accessible for everyone. America Walks has seen the dedication, passion, and innovation in communities across the US as they work to improve transportation systems to become more active, healthy, and safe with activity-friendly connections to important places in the area that attract people, provide social interaction, and allow for participation in multiple activities. In alignment with the
Center for Disease Control’s Connecting Routes + Destinations materials, this webinar will highlight work being done by three communities of various sizes who are working to create more activity-friendly connections for all.
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CDC-NACDD Walkability Action Institutes (WAI): RFA application period is Monday, October 29, 2018 - Friday, December 14, 2018. Interested MPO, other regional planning organization such as an Area Agency on Aging (AAA) or a Rural Planning Organization (RPO), or a local public health agency interested in building a team with their regional planning organization to work on Walkability. Each team must have, at a minimum, representatives from public health, planning/transportation, and elected official representation.
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Articles
Reference Materials
The ‘
Neuroscience for Cities Playbook’, a collaboration between Future Cities Catapult, Centric Lab and University College London, contains a set of tools, methodologies and strategies for practitioners to adapt neuroscience insights into their work.
NACTO and the Better Bike Share Partnership release
best practice guidance for engaging communities in mobility initiatives
Call for Abstracts & Papers
Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Call for presentation and session abstracts,
2019 ITE Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, July 21-24, 2019.
Submission Deadline November 27th
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bstract submission deadline November 15th
Conferences
Urban Transitions 2018 - Integrating urban and transport planning, environment and health for healthier urban living, 25 - 27 November 2018, Barcelona Spain
Transportation for America,
Capital Ideas, December 5-6, 2018, Atlanta, Georgia
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Location: Arizona State University – Tempe Campus
Smart Growth is hiring! Click
HERE to learn more.
- Communications Associate
- LOCUS Massachusetts Policy/Communications Fellow
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GDPR Data Regulations
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect on 25 May 2018. It is meant to unify data privacy requirements and increase transparency across the European Union (EU), however, we are implementing the policy to protect our international community of professionals.
GDPR requires that we make it clear to you how to
unsubscribe to the IPATH newsletter and/or the ICTH emails you receive. In addition, we are required to provide a privacy policy stating that we will not do anything with your email address except send you IPATH/ICTH related newsletters and/or emails. To read our GDRP policy click
HERE.
You have the option to
unsubscribe from our list-serv by clicking on the link that is always available to you at the bottom of all IPATH/ICTH newsletters and emails. As a valued member of the transport and health community, we hope you will remain on the list-serv.
GDRP Website
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