title: Transport And Health: A Marriage Of Convenience Or An Absolute Necessity.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The recent diesel scandal has again highlighted the impact that the transport sector can have on public health.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe the current impact of transport planning on public health.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Transport is fundamental to our cities' economic and social development, but causes large health effects and impact through accidents, air pollution, noise, green space and lack of physical activity.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is an urgent need to rebalance and provide better and safer infrastructures and policy support for transport, and particularly, active transport modes, building a new culture for it. A parallel transition in transport and urban planning is needed to improve, in a global and structural way, the relations between urban mobility and health.
authors.affiliation: CREAL, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: mnieuwenhuijsen@creal.cat.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Nieuwenhuijsen
authors.affiliation: ITS, University of Leeds, Leeds, England.
authors.forename: Haneen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Khreis
authors.affiliation: ITS, University of Leeds, Leeds, England.
authors.forename: Ersilia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Verlinghieri
authors.affiliation: CREAL, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rojas-Rueda
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities; D002958:City Planning / Q000592:standards*; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health; D014186:Transportation; D001335:Vehicle Emissions / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D001335:Vehicle Emissions
keywords: Accidents; Air pollution; Green space; Health; Noise; Physical activity; Transport