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

COUNCIL CHAMBER

OPENING PLENARY: Missions and visions – tackling the social and commercial determinants of health

Many underlying causes of unhealthy urban development could be relieved by more thoughtful transport and planning policy.

What happens when transport and planning policy is shaped by shared visions – easy access for all to health, housing, employment, education, amenities and leisure? And when improving public health is prioritised across policy and delivery.

This session will look at the integration of transport, planning, and health policies to solve public health and transport issues.

11.00

Morning break

Tea & coffee served in the exhibition

11.30

Delegates choose to attend 1 of 3 breakout sessions

COUNCIL CHAMBER

1

Reducing mobility-related inequalities

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)

BORDEAUX

2

Demonstrating the health benefits of transport policy: panel session

What data should be collected, and how can data quality be evaluated?
Which benefits can be claimed, and where is the supporting evidence?
What mental and physical health measures should we monitor?
How do we best understand the influence of health on transport?

PUERTO MORAZÁN

3

Leading by example: how health professionals and elected members can boost rates of active travel

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

13.00

Lunch break

Refreshments served in the exhibition

14.00

Delegates choose to attend 1 of 3 breakout sessions

COUNCIL CHAMBER

1

Using the revised planning process to deliver healthy and active environments

BORDEAUX

2

Delivering multi-modal ‘walk-bike-bus-train’ networks

PUERTO MORAZÁN

3

Workshop: demonstrating the impact of active travel on health behaviours, exposures, and outcomes

Led by James Woodcock, lead, Public Health Modelling group, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge

15.30

Afternoon break

Tea & coffee served in the exhibition

16.00

COUNCIL CHAMBER

Closing plenary – tackling polarisation and populism. Prioritising health in planning policies in a win-win for everyone, so why is it so difficult to communicate and deliver?

17.15

Event close