Abstract:
The Moving Active Transportation to Higher Ground: Opportunities for Accelerating the Assessment of Health Impacts conference was held in Washington, D.C., on April 13–14, 2015. The Transportation Research Board’s Standing Committees on Bicycle Transportation and on Pedestrians organized the conference, working with the Joint Subcommittees on Health and Transportation and on Bicycle and Pedestrian Data and in collaboration with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). The main themes of the conference were policy and planning initiatives to increase active transportation, health impact assessments (HIAs), data collection and data analysis to quantify active transportation, and methods to forecast active transportation and its effects on health. This article includes conference highlights from the keynote speaker presentations, breakout sessions, poster presentations, and the closing town hall session.
