Category Archives: Transportation

Where Do Older Pedestrians Experience a Risk of Being Killed in a Motor Vehicle Crash?

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

Our newest paper just came out in the Journal of American Geriatrics Society and shows that across the US, pedestrian fatalities from motor vehicle crashes among older adults cluster around senior centers, community centers, libraries, pharmacies/drug stores, and healthcare/hospital/health services. … Continue reading →

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Expanding the BEH Research Portfolio

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Built Environment and Health

This summer we had the good fortune to start working with Emergent BioSolutions and have recently completed our first round of deliverables: an abstract accepted to the American Public Health Association (APHA) conference; and a paper on new methods to … Continue reading →

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Pedestrian Injury Research

Posted on December 16, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Our work on pedestrian safety is an extension of our work on how urban design can be used to support engagement in pedestrian activity and physical activity. As we have built our portfolio of pedestrian injury research, we have come … Continue reading →

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Increases in Micromobility Injuries in the US: Implications for Public Health

Posted on September 20, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

Micromobility – bicycles, E-bikes, E-scooters, and hoverboards – has experienced immense growth in recent years, and we just published a paper in the first look section of AJPH exploring how this growth parallels the rise in electric micromobility injuries and … Continue reading →

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The Burden of Pedestrian Falls on Streets and Sidewalks in the U.S.

Posted on January 30, 2024 by Built Environment and Health

After doing substantial work documenting the links between greater neighborhood walkability and higher engagement in pedestrian activity and reduced weight gain, in recent years we have launched research projects on pedestrian safety.  In new work just published in the Journal … Continue reading →

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The Evolution of Disparities in Spatial Access to Social Services in the U.S., 1990 to 2014

Posted on June 19, 2022 by Built Environment and Health

To address patient’s unmet social needs and improve health outcomes, health systems have developed programs to refer patients in need to social service agencies. However, the capacity to respond to patient referrals varies tremendously across communities. To understand how disparities … Continue reading →

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National Geographic Cities Issue

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Built Environment and Health

Just a quick note:  The April 2019 issue of National Geographic focuses on Cities and how to redesign them to support health, sustainability and community.  The issue covers transit oriented design, China’s new urban design regulations, walking through Tokyo, the … Continue reading →

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Free-floating Bike Share in Seattle

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Built Environment and Health

BEH member Steve Mooney recently led two studies regarding the use of the free-floating bike share system in Seattle.  (Free-floating bike share systems are systems that allow users to pick up and leave bikes anywhere within a service area rather … Continue reading →

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The CDC and DoT’s Transportation and Health Tool

Posted on November 6, 2015 by Built Environment and Health

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Transportation just released the new Transportation and Health Tool, which provides easy access to data that examines the health impacts of transportation systems. The Transportation and Health Tool provides data … Continue reading →

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