*People who walk, cycle or take transit a third less likely to be obese:
study*
by ALISON BAILEY <http://www.news1130.com/author/alison-bailey>
Posted Apr 29, 2015 9:34 am PDT
http://www.news1130.com/2015/04/29/people-who-walk-cycle-or-take-transit-a-…
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – If you walk, cycle, or take transit, chances are,
you’re healthier than your friends who drive every day.
Those are the results of a new study
<https://www.myhealthmycommunity.org/Portals/0/Documents/MHMC%20Transportati…>
that
comes just one month before ballots have to be in for the transportation
plebiscite.
People who choose to walk, cycle, or take transit are 33 per cent less
likely to be obese than those who are dependent on their cars, says Dr. Jat
Sandhu with Vancouver Coastal Health.
He adds they also are likely to have more positive lifestyle habits.
“And these lifestyle attributes [are] characterized by eating five or more
servings of fruit and vegetables a day, having 30 minutes of walking a day,
meeting their 150 minutes of exercise a week, as well as not smoking.”
There was a difference in level of connection to the community, as well.
“Those car users with longer commute times had a much lower sense of
community belonging, and that’s a proxy marker for your social
connectedness to your community as well as your social connections around
you. So, really, the message here is that there are clear positive health
dividends for those that participate in active transportation, whereas for
car users with long commutes, there’s a downside in relation to how well
connected they are to their community,” says Sandhu.
This study began in 2013 and the data was collected over a year.
About 28,000 people took part in the study, which is part of a larger
project called My Health, My Community. Sandhu is the principal
investigator of that project.
“This is part of our broader work around healthy communities. Across both
VCH and Fraser Health, there are in excess of 30 municipalities that we
work with and we’re working with local governments to develop official
community plans to consider factors that may support creating health
promoting environments, so this information is really going to inform that,
and that was really the primary purpose of undertaking this project. Along
the way, we realized we’ve collected a wealth of information that could
inform other issues as well, and hence, the first report that we released
was the transportation and health.”
Sandhu adds community profiles for 30 Lower Mainland municipalities will be
released in about a month; the municipalities are benchmarked across their
regional comparators.
Just a shout out to all AT Folk (and a hello to Beth) I thought this would brighten your Wednesday.Having nothing whatsoever to do with active transport but everything to do with the song.Crusoe's Dog-Friendly Florida Vacation 2015
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Cheers from Stacy Matwick (enjoying my retirement)
Marinoni: The Fire In The Frame
For cycling fans, his name is nothing less than legendary. In 1964, when he
was 25, Giuseppe Marinoni left his native Italy for a bike race. Not only
did he get countless Canadians interested in the sport, he went on to
become one of the most passionate and trusted bicycle builders in the
world. Now 75, the man with “a character of iron and the soul of an angel”
is as driven as ever, and plans to break the world record for distance
cycled in one hour for his age group, a record held by Eddy Merckx. For 60
days leading up to the event, Tony Girardin documented this intriguing,
complete man, who shared not only his own story but those of the people
important to him.
*Generously sponsored by Natural Cycle*
*Now playing at Cinemathque. Check showtimes and buy tickets
<https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/event/marinoni-the-fire-in-the-frame/2015…>.*
*** Please share widely – thanks! ***
On Saturday May 2 and Sunday May 3, the ninth annual Jane’s Walk is
strolling into town. On this weekend, Winnipeggers can choose from a number
of guided walks taking place across the city, and presented in an
innovative and uniquely neighbourly fashion.
Find background on Jane’s Walks
<http://greenactioncentre.ca/living-green-living-well/janes-walks-celebrate-…>
or
go straight to the 2015 Winnipeg listings
<http://janeswalk.org/canada/winnipeg/> to plan which walks you’ll take in
May 2nd & 3rd. Check back regularly as more walks are being added daily!
New (April 2015) report - information on evaluating projects.
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/guides/evaluating-complete-streets-projec…
David Patman, P. Eng.
Transit Planner
Winnipeg Transit | Service Development Division
421 Osborne Street | Winnipeg, Manitoba R3L 2A2
P: 204-986-5737 | dpatman(a)winnipeg.ca<mailto:dpatman@winnipeg.ca>
Hello everyone,
In case you have an hour to fill (cause we all have so much unallocated
time), here's a whole list of webinar recordings now available on YouTube
that maybe of interest from the Centre for Urban Transportation Research
(CUTR) at the University of South Florida.
enjoy,
Beth
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Winters, Phil <winters(a)cutr.usf.edu>
Date: Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:47 PM
Subject: [transp-tdm] CUTR webcasts now on YouTube
To: Transp-tdm <transp-tdm(a)lists.cutr.usf.edu>
Okay – we may not rival Netflix but we have moved our 75+ CUTR Webcast
recordings to the CUTR YouTube channel!
We hope you will visit https://www.youtube.com/user/NCTRCUTR to view these
approximately 1-hour webinar recordings. Sorry but popcorn is not
included.
The full video playlist can be found at
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD9B44DA087CA569E or check the list
below:
1. A Qualitative Analysis of Bus Simulator Training on Transit
Incidents
2. A Tool for Assessing the Economic Impacts of Spending on Public
Transit
3. Access Management - Best Practices for Local Governments
4. Airport Cooperative Research Program
5. Airport Leadership Development Program
6. Alternative Fuels and Public Transportation Evaluating the
Economic Impacts of Transportation
7. An Assessment of Public Transportation Markets Using NHTS Data
8. Attracting and Securing Airline Service
9. Best Practices in Bus Dispatch
10. Bicycle Sharing Program Development
11. Carpooling Without the Car - Walking School Bus and Bicycle Train
Program
12. Collaboration between Universities and Cities to Create Sustainable
Communities
13. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Rural and Small Urban Transit
14. Developing an Application to Measure Public Involvement
15. Development of Pinellas County Roadway Jurisdiction Policy
16. Evaluating the Impacts of Real-Time Transit Information in Tampa and
Atlanta
17. Evaluation of Camera-Based Systems to Reduce Transit Bus Side
Collisions
18. Evaluation of Rear-end Collisions and Identification of Possible
Solutions
19. Expanding Commuter Options and Reducing GHG Emissions with Workplace
Plug-in Vehicle Charging
20. Five Ways to Mitigate Substance Abuse in the Transportation Workplace
21. Flooded Bus Barns and Buckled Rails - Public Transportation and
Climate Change Adaptation
22. Freight - Challenging the Role of Public Sector Transportation
Officials
23. How to Develop a Transit Development Plan (TDP) and Why?
24. Human Transit - Tools for Clarifying Transit Debates
25. Improving Bus Transit Safety through Rewards and Discipline
26. Internal Trip Capture for Mixed-use Developments
27. Introduction to Airport Economics
28. Investigation of the Feasibility of Toll and Transit Agency Equity
Sharing
29. Location Aware Technology
30. Mapping the Structure of Work in Public Transportation
31. Mobility Planning Strategies and Concepts
32. Motorcycle Crash Hot Spot Analysis for Ten High Priority Florida
Counties
33. Motorcycle Crash Trends in Florida
34. Motorcycle Violations Checklist
35. Motorcyclist Attitudes and Behaviors in Florida
36. Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21) from a
Public Transportation Perspective
37. Moving the Bus Safely Back Into Traffic
38. National Transit Livability Performance Measures – Challenges and
Opportunities
39. Observational Survey of Motorcyclist Behaviors
40. OneBusAway Multi-region – Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps to
New Cities
41. Open Transit Data - A Developer's Perspective
42. Organizational Structure of MPOs
43. Pedestrian/Bicyclist Warning Devices and Signs at Highway-Rail and
Pathway-Rail Grade Crossings
44. Planning for Changing Travel Behavior
45. Potential Impacts of Federal Health Care Reform on Public Transit
46. Practices to Protect Bus Operators from Passenger Assaults
47. Recent Developments in Cost-Effective Multimodal Trip Planners
48. Regional Transit GIS Architecture and Data Model Project
49. Shared Bicycle/Bus Lanes
50. Survive the Ride - Motorcycle Safety
51. Sustainability Metrics & Mapping Tool for Environmental Assessment of
Rail Infrastructure in IL
52. TCRP Report: Maintaining Transit Effectiveness Under Tight Fiscal
Constraints
53. The American Community Survey (ACS) Statistical Analyzer
54. The Impact of Implementing a Contactless Smart Card System on Miami
Dade Transit and its Customers
55. The Implementation and Outcomes of Fare-Free Public Transit
56. The Who and What: Bus Rapid Transit Riders and Systems in the U.S.
57. Toward zero deaths: Who needs to do the heavy lifting? (Motorcycle
Crash Trend in Florida)
58. Tracking Costs of Alternatively Fueled Buses in Florida
59. Tracking Costs of Alternatively Fueled Buses in Florida Phase II
60. Transit Boardings Estimation and Simulation Tool (TBEST)
61. Transit GIS Clearinghouse
62. Transit Improvements from the Urban Partnership Agreement Program -
What Have We Seen So Far?
63. Transit, Technology, and Public Participation
64. Trends in Travel Behavior
65. Trends in Travel Behavior - Update
66. TriMet’s Customer Service Modules & OTP Analyst Extension using
OpenTripPlanner
67. Trip Reduction Impacts for Mobility Management Strategies
68. University Campuses as Leaders in the Shift Away from Driving
69. Using Audience Response to Measure Pedestrian Education Efforts
70. Value Capture Coordination Best Practices and Case Studies for
Transit Capital Projects
71. Vehicle Assist and Automation Technologies in Bus Revenue Service
72. Veteran Mobility in Small Urban and Rural Areas
73. Visionary Student Concepts for Florida’s Future Corridors
74. Volunteer Transportation - A Generosity-Based Solution to Our
Mobility Challenges
75. Walk Wise - A Grassroots Pedestrian Safety Campaign
76. Web-based Trip Planner Options for Transit Agencies
77. What We Do and Don’t Know About Vehicle Miles of Travel Trends
You can also subscribe to the channel.
Phil
Philip L. Winters
Director, TDM Program
Center for Urban Transportation Research
University of South Florida
4202 E. Fowler Ave., CUT100
Tampa, FL 33620-5375
813.974.9811
813.974.5168 fax
winters(a)cutr.usf.edu
www.cutr.usf.edu
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