Share: Essential Evidence
Top line: Cycling can be an enjoyable way to meet physical activity recommendations and is suitable for older people. Key findings include that cycling promotion for this age group must focus on improving confidence and consider the need for reinforcement & repetition.
Top line: There exists a large group of people with the potential to change their travel behaviour, coupled with evidence for substantial potential health benefits resulting from such a change. This suggests that new public transport systems might be regarded as public health interventions. It is therefore important to understand how people experience and make sense of them in order that their benefits might be fully realised.
Top line: A strong case has been made that the single most effective method for improving public health is the introduction of 20mph speed limits, not least in order to help reduce the numbers of injuries among those aged 0-25, and among those in poorer areas.
Top line: There is a need for those who drive cars to begin to contemplate giving-up driving as they approach old age. Many older car drivers stall for time and do not face up to the fact that they may not be able to drive in the future.
Top line: Psychologists have long recognised the potentially detrimental effect of the commute. Most studies of the commute and stress find that active travel, followed by public transport use are the least stressful modes and that active travel is often reported as a positive experience in terms of stress management.
Top line: Victim blaming in child pedestrian injuries is a strategy which serves to maintain the economic interests of the dominant groups in society at the expense and suffering of children, particularly those from low income families.
