Transportation significantly affects environmental and human health in many ways: traffic collisions, air pollution, urban sprawl, and access to healthy food and physical activity are just a few examples.
APHA Transportation Toolkit Great fact sheets and resources on transportation and public health, climate change, equity, and the hidden health costs of transportation.
Green Vehicle Guide How green is your car?
Transportation and Health Toolkit Learn more about transportation issues and how they relate to health.
Designing Healthy Communities How we design our built environment may hold tremendous potential for addressing many of the nation’s current public health concerns, such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression, asthma, violence, and social inequities. This four-part PBS series address how we can design communities that promote human and environmental health.
Episode 1