Why attend?

WHY ATTEND?

Physical inactivity is the fourth most important risk factor for poor health. Zero carbon policies are urgently needed to combat climate change.
The solution? Healthy, active and sustainable travel options.

Transport + Health 2024 brings together central and local government decision-makers with their consultant supply chain and innovative product and service providers. The focus is on innovation and best practice over a decade of collaborative working across the public health, transport planning and urban development sectors.

The keynotes, breakout sessions and workshops will share best practice on:

Air quality and noise management initiatives
Public transport improvement and integration
Delivering active travel infrastructure
Behaviour change initiatives and incentives
Settlements that encourage activity and provide connectivity
Transport equality and inclusion
Promoting evidence-based approaches through knowledge and skills transfer
Cross sector collaboration: frameworks and funding
Maximising co-benefits through active planning
Improving the health 'viability' of neighbourhoods
Traffic restraint and demand management
Land use, housing, social cohesion and transport

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Environmental pollution and physical inactivity are key health risks, yet recent research outcomes remain hopeful. Studies show that the evidence for positive impacts related to increasing physical activity is encouraging, especially for town and city-wide interventions.

Addressing health in communities means ensuring that all professionals involved in shaping the built environment, and the embedded transport options that help people go about their daily activities, are working towards promoting healthy lifestyles.

This event is for:

Transport and urban planners
Population and public health professionals
Public transport professionals
Highways and transport engineers
Active travel professionals
Data and modelling experts
Marketing and behaviour change professionals
Directors of strategy and services
Academics and researchers
Community groups and campaigners
Transport technologists
New mobility pioneers

The programme

Programme

Please note that the programme is currently being programmed.

09.00

Registration

Tea & coffee served in the exhibition

10.00

SESSION 1: ThE BIG ISSUES in TransporT + HealTh

Welcome: Cllr. Stephen Williams, Chair of the Public Health & Communities Committee, Bristol City Council

Chair: William Roberts, Chief Executive, Royal Society for Public Health

Adrian Davis, Professor of Transport and Health, Edinburgh Napier University
Ed Plowden, Chair of the Transport and Connectivity Policy Committee, Bristol City Council
Anna Gale, Health Improvement Manager, Public Health Scotland
Sarah Jones, Consultant in Environmental Health Protection, Public Health Wales

11.00

Morning break

Tea & coffee served in the exhibition

11.30

Delegates choose to attend 1 of 3 breakout sessions

Building high impacT inTervenTions inTo TransporT plans

Led by Eleanor Roaf, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Trustee, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change

& Ruth Gelletlie, Chair, UK Partnership for Active Travel, Transport and Health (PATTH)

Panellists

Flora McFarlane, Head of Growth and Partnerships, VivaCity & John Smith, Principal Projects Officer, Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

George Rowlands, Zero Emissions Network Project Officer, Hackney Council & Leila Ganguin, Sustainable Transport Planner, Hackney Council

Ben Simm, Team Manager – Transport Strategy and Policy, Leicestershire County Council

Judith Cowie, Transport Officer – People and Place, City of
Edinburgh Council & Rebecca Smith, project officer, SEStran

Roger Geffen, Campaigner, Low Traffic Futures

DaTA qualiTY & IMPacT

Chair: Jonathan Flower, Centre for Transport and Society, UWE Bristol

Active Travel Network Maps (ATNMs)

Nicola Grima, Active Travel Delivery Programme Lead, Transport for Wales

Modal shifts and infrastructure data

Will Caiger, Head of Projects & Katie Brown, Project Manager, Love to Ride

Ethical approaches to collecting health data on transport projects

Dr Kerry Griffiths, Research and Evaluation Manager, Cycling UK

Smart data integration: linking transport and health for better outcomes

Iona Chandler, Partnership Manager, Urban Tide

Introducing National Highways trip length tool

Glen McAdam, Principal Transport Planner, National Highways

The role of healTh proFessionals in increasing raTes of acTive Travel

Chair: Jo Maher, GP Partner and Physical Activity Clinical Champion, Move More Sheffield

Creating an exemplar NHS

Andrew Bradley, Net Zero Travel & Transport Lead, NHS England

Designing in community health

Anna Moore, Barts Health NHS Trust & Jakub Mamczak, Senior Campaigns Officer, London Cycling Campaign

Evaluating the bus experiences of Hywel Dda University health board staff

Evangeline Grace Rees, Behaviour Change, researcher, Aberystwyth University

Doncaster Active Travel Social Prescribing (ATSP)

Peter Edwards, Associate, SYSTRA

NHS travel planning 3.0: Data + AI + collaboration = rapid impact

Ali Clabburn, Founder, Mobilityways

13.00

Lunch break

Refreshments served in the exhibition

14.00

Delegates choose to attend 1 of 3 breakout sessions

REducing MobiliTy-rElaTed inequaLITiEs

Chair: Pete Dyson, Researcher, University of Bath and co-author, Transport for Humans

Reducing transport poverty

Anna Gale, Health Improvement Manager, Health Improvement Manager, Public Health Scotland

Transport equality and inclusion

Louise Robbins, Strategic Lead – Walking and Active Environments,
Greater Manchester Moving & Richard Nickson, Network Director - Active Travel, TfGM

Equitable policy making and traffic reduction initiatives

Becca Massey-Chase, Principal research fellow and co-head of participative research, IPPR

Targeting vulnerable groups to address social inequalities

Bernardo Russo, Evaluation Researcher, Essex Pedal Power & Thomas Oliver, Active Environment Coordinator, Basildon Council

The value of considering intersectionality in planning for active travel

Joy Mckay, Specialist Technician, Human Factors Engineering, Transportation Research Group, University of Southampton

PLANNING FOR ACTIVITY AND CONNECTIVITY

Chair: Vicki Franks, Active Travel, West Yorkshire Combined Authority

Regeneration in Bedminster, Bristol

James Coleman, Senior Project Manager, Bristol City Council and Laurence Fallon, Development Management Team Leader, Active Travel England

Health in Local Plans framework

Rosalie Callway, Policy and Project Manager, TCPA

Public transport improvement and integration

Silviya Barrett, Director of Policy and Campaigns, Campaign for Better Transport

Health impacts of interventions that encourage active journeys

Catherine Purcell, Reader in Occupational Therapy, Cardiff University

Leveraging cycling data to promote active travel and health in the Somer Valley

Tim Rawlings, Project Manager, Bath & NE Somerset (BANES) Council

Richard Pearce, Project Coordinator, See Sense

COMMON TOOLS AND COLLABORATIVE APPROACHES

Session led by Sarah Jones, Consultant in Environmental Health Protection, Public Health Wales and Co-Director, Transport and Health Integrated research Network (THINK)

In 2022, funding was secured to set up a research network around the relationship between transport and health, called THINK (Transport and Health Integrated research NetworK; see https://think.aber.ac.uk/).

This session will showcase successful case studies of collaboration between transport and health professionals.

DfT Active Travel Social Prescribing pilot – initial findings
Tyler Spencer Pote and Jenny Wiles, Active Travel England

Innovation in Health Impact Assessments – measuring and monetising the health impacts of regular active travel
Julian Sanchez, National Cycle Lead, Active Wellbeing Society and Elizabeth Bamford, Associate, Volterra

Collaboration case study
Dr Alice Dalton, Senior Research Associate, Norwich Medical School and Andrew Hollis, Active Travel Project Officer, Norfolk County Council

15.30

Afternoon break

Tea & coffee served in the exhibition

16.00

CLOSING PLENARY: ThE NEXT STEps

Chair: Adrian Davis, Professor of Transport and Health, Edinburgh Napier University

Peter Murray OBE, Co-Founder of New London Architecture (NLA)
William Roberts, Chief Executive, Royal Society for Public Health
Eleanor Roaf, Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health and Trustee, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change