AT-Network November 2019

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TAC Resource: Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada (Nov 2019)

by Beth McKechnie

*Thanks to Terry Zdan for the share...* *Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada * https://www.tac-atc.ca/en/publications/ptm-ihtc-e Traditionally, transportation systems have been designed for motorized vehicles to move people, goods and services efficiently. Excluding more active and sustainable modes of travel from these systems in meaningful ways has often influenced Canadians to use motorized vehicles. The design of transportation systems and land use can help achieve public health goals such as increased physical activity, reduced chronic diseases, and reduced exposure to air and noise pollution. Good health can be facilitated or negatively impacted by transportation policies, plans, analyses, funding levels, and infrastructure design decisions – all of which impact the relative safety, efficiency, costs, and overall desirability and relative utility across modes of travel. As a result, the potential health consequences of transportation decisions and land use actions are a growing part of the fields’ lexicons. *Integrating Health and Transportation in Canada*: - Provides a review of literature and best practices on the topic; - Describes input provided by practitioners about knowledge and resources needed; - Describes the methodology used to develop recommendations for improvement; and - Provides, for each recommendation, resources related to the champions, preliminary actions and challenges identified.

4 years, 5 months

Driver’s licence fees to fund AT in PEI

by Beth McKechnie

Driver’s licence fees return to fund climate change projects, says P.E.I. government https://www.capebretonpost.com/news/canada/drivers-license-fees-return-to-f… CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I —Driver’s licence fees will be reinstated in 2020 to pay for a $5 million active transportation fund for P.E.I., said the province on Tuesday. As of Jan. 1, 2020, the driver’s licence fee rebate for Islanders will end. The free driver's licences were introduced by the previous Liberal government in the months leading up to the last provincial election. The free licences were funded with revenue from a modest federally mandated tax on carbon. Registration fees will also increase for regular vehicles, however electric vehicles and hybrids will continue to receive registration fee discounts. The new $5 million active transportation fund will build new walking and bike paths, widen paved shoulders and better connect existing walking and cycling trails to improve and grow our active transportation network. "I know some Islanders will be disappointed when they don't get a free drivers licence. But I am determined to address climate challenges head on," Transportation Minister Steven Myers told the legislature on Tuesday. Under the new fund, a list of priority investments across the province will be compiled through public and partner feedback this winter, said Myers. Priority projects will begin during the 2020 construction season. Green transportation critic Stephen Howard welcomed the announcement. "It's encouraging to hear that the government is going to be taking some actual action on climate targets with the funds that are supposed to be dedicated towards greenhouse gas emissions," Howard said. Howard further suggested the new funding should go toward improving cycling paths on the Hillsborough Bridge. Liberal MLA Robert Henderson suggested the changes would increase fees paid by Islanders. "I haven't seen any platform that said they were going to increase taxes and fees on Islanders. Now they're looking like they're going to do that," Henderson said. "I don't think our party was too consulted or collaborated on (with) this particular announcement." The licences will be renewed for a five year term. Twitter.com/stu_neatby

4 years, 5 months

CBC: Calgary grows downtown cycle track network by 1.5 kilometres

by Beth McKechnie

Nice to see Calgary continuing to build on the success of their downtown protected bike lane grid: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cycle-track-calgary-1.5352572 -- Beth McKechnie (she/her) *| *Green Action Centre <http://www.greenactioncentre.ca/> 3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave | (204) 925-3777 x102 | Find us here <http://greenactioncentre.ca/content/ecocentre-directions-and-travel-options/> Green Action Centre is your green living hub Support our work by becoming a member <http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/>. Donate at CanadaHelps.org <http://canadahelps.org/> <http://www.gomanitoba.ca>

4 years, 5 months

Event Recap: Parking And The City ft. Dr. Donald Shoup

by Heather McKie

In October 2019, Green Action Centre partnered with the Downtown Winnipeg BIZ to bring Dr. Donald Shoup <http://www.shoupdogg.com/> to Winnipeg for *Parking And The City*. This two-day event had the goal of bringing planners, developers, parking managers, city councilors, stakeholders and citizens together to hear from one of the world’s leading experts in parking. Those in attendance had the opportunity to learn, debate and envision how changes to our management of parking could transform our cities. Read the full event recap *HERE <https://greenactioncentre.ca/healthy-travel/recap-parking-and-the-city/>*, which includes a video recording and presentation slides. -- *Heather McKie* Green Action Centre <http://www.greenactioncentre.ca/> 204-925-3777 ext. 107 | 3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB *Green Action Centre is your green living hub* Support our work by becoming a member <http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/>. Donate at CanadaHelps.org <http://canadahelps.org/>. Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/GreenActionCentre/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/greenactionctr> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/greenactioncentre/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-action-centre/> <https://www.gomanitoba.ca/Public/Home.aspx> ᐧ

4 years, 5 months

Integrated Transport and Health Impacts Model (ITHIM): Invitation to Research Seminar - November 13, 2019

by Zdan, Terry (MI)

The ITHIM tool calculates the change in fine particulate air pollution from vehicle exhaust, physical activity from walking and cycling, and injuries from traffic collisions that result from a change in transportation from vehicles to walking and biking to assess the overall benefit in health as well as the costs from changes in air pollution, physical activity, and traffic injuries. Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDAsInVy…>. [CARB_header] ________________________________ Join CARB for the Upcoming Research Seminar on November 13, 2019 Open Source Integrated Transport and Health Impacts Model (ITHIM) ________________________________ Every year, more than 30,000 Californians die prematurely from traffic injuries and chronic diseases linked to physical inactivity and air pollution. The transportation system in California impacts our health in both positive and negative ways. It enables us to access goods and services, jobs, and opportunities, however, car-centric transportation is associated with long and sedentary commuting, noise, air pollution, urban sprawl, community severance, and traffic injuries. Active travel for transportation can improve public health by offering opportunities for physical activity through walking and cycling and decrease the production of air pollution. Low levels of physical activity contribute to the premature deaths of Californians each year and raise the risks and costs of major chronic diseases. According to the California Household Survey and the US Behavioral Risk Factor Survey, about 20% of Californians indicate low to no physical activity.The transportation sector also accounts for about 40% of directly emitted greenhouse gases annually in California. These gases lead to warming air temperatures, which favor the formation of health harming smog. Replacing short trips taken by cars with walking, cycling, and transit represents a double win: improving health and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. ITHIM which stands for Integrated Transport and Health Impacts Model (ITHIM) is a tool that can calculate the health benefits, harms, and cost savings of active transportation. The California version of the ITHIM planning tool answers the question of "How much health benefit we can expect by changing our mode of transportation from cars to active transportation such as walking and biking?" The ITHIM tool calculates the change in fine particulate air pollution from vehicle exhaust, physical activity from walking and cycling, and injuries from traffic collisions that result from a change in transportation from vehicles to walking and biking to assess the overall benefit in health as well as the costs from changes in air pollution, physical activity, and traffic injuries. DATE: November 13, 2019 TIME: 10:00 a.m. LOCATION: California Environmental Protection Agency California Air Resources Board | Sierra Hearing Room 1001 I Street Sacramento, California 95814 Webcast<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDEsInVy…> ________________________________ Speaker Biography Neil Maizlish, Ph.D., M.P.H.,is an epidemiologist with over 30 years of experience in research methods, statistics, and health informatics in government, academia, unions, and health care organizations. He currently is a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Davis, where he models the health co-benefits of active transport as a greenhouse gas mitigation strategy. He is also a senior Research Scientist at the Public Health Institute, focusing on the development of healthy community indicators. CLEARING CALIFORNIA SKIES FOR 50 YEARS CARB is the lead agency for California's fight against climate change, and oversees all air pollution control efforts in the state to attain and maintain health-based air quality standards. Learn more at www.arb.ca.gov<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDIsInVy…>.<abe/templates/189475/www.arb.ca.gov> Stay connected with California Air Resources Board [Social Media icons]<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDMsInVy…> Manage Subscriptions<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDQsInVy…> | Unsubscribe All<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDUsInF1…> | Help<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDYsInVy…> ________________________________ This email was sent to terry.zdan(a)gov.mb.ca<mailto:terry.zdan@gov.mb.ca> using GovDelivery Communications Cloud, on behalf of: California Air Resources Board * 1001 "I" Street * Sacramento, CA * 95814 [GovDelivery logo]<https://lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJidWxsZXRpbl9saW5rX2lkIjoxMDcsInVy…>

4 years, 5 months

"School Streets" Pilot in Toronto: Webinar, Thursday November 21

by Sean Carlson

The School Streets concept - car-free areas in front of schools during arrival and dismissal times that have been used in the UK and other European countries - is being piloted in Canada (Toronto) for the first time. Ontario Active School Travel is hosting a webinar on planning and implementing School Streets, which could be valuable for many AT network members! *Sean Carlson* (he/him/his) Active and Safe Routes to School Program, Green Action Centre <http://www.greenactioncentre.ca/> 204-925-3777 ext. 103 | 3rd floor, 303 Portage Ave., Winnipeg, MB *Green Action Centre is your green living hub* Support our work by becoming a member <http://greenactioncentre.ca/support/become-a-member/>. Donate at CanadaHelps.org <http://canadahelps.org/>. Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/GreenActionCentre/> | Twitter <https://twitter.com/greenactionctr> | Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/greenactioncentre/> | LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/green-action-centre/> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ontario Active School Travel <info(a)ontarioactiveschooltravel.ca> Date: Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 4:31 PM Subject: Register for School Streets Webinar To: Sean Carlson <sean(a)greenactioncentre.ca> Thursday, 21 November 2019 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST) View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/ontarioactiveschooltravel.ca/ontario-active-school-trave…> A program of Green Communities Canada *5 November 2019 * School Streets Webinar *Register for School Streets Webinar* <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> *Thursday, 21 November 2019 from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM (EST)* Ontario Active School Travel <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> and 8 80 Cities <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> present a webinar on *School Streets*, a successful program from the U.K. that has been proven to improve safety, reduce air pollution, and encourage more active transportation. School Streets are appearing in cities across the UK and Europe, where communities take part in creating car-free zones in front of schools at peak drop-off and pick-up times. Hackney Borough Council is a municipality that has pioneered the installation of School Street zones in the City of London, U.K. with 4 permanent zones established to date, and 3 more pilots underway in 2019. Building on the lessons learnt in Hackney, 8 80 Cities teamed up with Keele Street Public School, Toronto District School Board and EcoKids to host the first School Streets pilot project in Canada <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> this October. *Learn about how to plan and implement a School Street * This webinar will discuss the motivations behind the School Streets movement, and identify what makes a good candidate for a successful School Street pilot. Our presenters will share their experiences of planning and implementing School Streets and highlight resources available to support these initiatives: - *Tyler Linton - Sustainable Transport and Engagement Group Manager, London Borough of Hackney (U.K)* - *Amanda O’Rourke - Executive Director, 8-80 Cities* - *Candice Leung - Project Coordinator, 8-80 Cities* *REGISTER NOW* <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> Ontario Active School Travel is a program of Green Communities Canada with funding from the Government of Ontario. <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=4ed2453…> *Copyright © 2019 Green Communities Canada, All rights reserved.* You are receiving this email because you signed up to receive information on Ontario Active School Travel and/or you subscribed to Canada Walks News. *Our mailing address is:* Green Communities Canada 416 Chambers St, 2nd Floor Peterborough, Ontario K9H 3V1 Canada Add us to your address book <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/vcard?u=4ed2453d5f9f5…> Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/profile?u=4ed2453d5f9…> or unsubscribe from this list <https://ontarioactiveschooltravel.us4.list-manage.com/unsubscribe?u=4ed2453…> . [image: Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp] <http://www.mailchimp.com/monkey-rewards/?utm_source=freemium_newsletter&utm…> ᐧ

4 years, 5 months

Pedestrian Safety and Traffic-Speed Management Resource

by Beth McKechnie

Thanks to Terry Zdan for the share! [image: http://www.trb.org/Resource.ashx?sn=cover_nchrp_syn_535] [image: http://www.trb.org/Resource.ashx?sn=viewthispdf] <https://www.nap.edu/login.php?action=guest&record_id=25618> [image: http://www.trb.org/Resource.ashx?sn=sponsorbeta] <http://www.trb.org/main/blurbs/179827.aspx> [image: http://www.trb.org/Resource.ashx?sn=buythisbook] <https://www.mytrb.org/Store/Product.aspx?ID=10368> Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management SYH535 10368 http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_syn_535.pdf 179827 *Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management * Measures that are effective at reducing speed, such as speed humps and mini traffic circles, are sometimes used in low-speed areas such as school zones. But they are often not recommended or allowed (via local policy) on the higher-speed streets typically associated with the highest injury severity for pedestrians. For those higher-speed streets, redesigning them to communicate lower speed, such as through a roadway-reconfiguration effort, can effectively accomplish the goal of lowering speed. In the absence of street redesign, however, another effective current solution is enforcement, and particularly automated speed enforcement (ASE) that frees police to focus on other issues and that is free from implicit or explicit bias. It is important to carefully consider community context when selecting locations to employ ASE, to avoid disproportionately burdening any historically disadvantaged communities that surround the typically high-speed streets that need to be addressed. The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's *NCHRP Synthesis 535: Pedestrian Safety Relative to Traffic-Speed Management* aims to document what is known about strategies and countermeasures to address pedestrian safety via traffic-speed management in urban environments. For example, the City of San Francisco regularly uses curb extensions as traffic-calming devices on its streets. However, the political and land use context of each city heavily influences the types of treatments that are considered feasible for each city. Thus, the City of Los Angeles has had to find alternatives to both ASE and road diets, the latter of which have been the subject of intense public backlash in some cases. These realities—that speed management can be fraught with difficulty—have spurred creative thinking about how to work within contextual confines, resulting in some particularly noteworthy and promising practices. For example, the City of Nashville anticipated potential backlash against speed-management efforts and thus chose to work with advocacy groups to identify areas of the city desiring walkability improvements. By installing walkability improvements in those areas first, city leaders created instant wins that could be used as leverage for future projects. The authors of the synthesis found there may be a need for greater clarity about the speed-limit-setting process, as well as for greater collaboration between local and state agencies when state roads run through urban areas. In particular, it may be worth exploring whether there is a need for a framework that will foster collaboration between local and state staff on safety initiatives such as achieving flexibility in roadway design, changing laws or regulations that govern speed-limit setting, and finding a balance between local safety needs and regional mobility needs. Such a framework may support both local and state agencies attempting to address safety issues and reach larger goals as articulated through movements like Vision Zero. Project: Project Information <https://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=4392> DOI: 10.17226/25618 <https://dx.doi.org/10.17226/25618> Project Number: 20-05/Topic 49-08 E-Newsletter Type: Recently Released TRB Publications <http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs.aspx?fields=ENewsletterType%7CRecently%20Rel…> TRB Publication Type: NCHRP Synthesis Report <http://www.trb.org/Main/Blurbs.aspx?fields=PublicationType%7CNCHRP%20Synthe…> *H**A**P**P**Y* *T**R**A**I**L**S * Terry Zdan BA MEDes Policy and Legislation Unit | Manitoba Infrastructure 1520 215 Garry Street Winnipeg MB R3C 3P3 *C 204 227 3724* E Terry.Zdan(a)gov.mb.ca [image: winnipeg-jets-logo-new] *"...Resilience is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events..."* þ Think green, read on screen | Soyez écolo, lisez à l'écran

4 years, 5 months

FYI : Rapid Transit Reports Winter Cyclist Traffic on Active Transportation Networks

by Zdan, Terry (MI)

FYI - See Report # 15 http://clkapps.winnipeg.ca/DMIS/ViewDoc.asp?DocId=18504&SectionId=&InitUrl= HAPPY TRAILS Terry Zdan BA MEDes

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