Share: Essential Evidence
Top line: Driver education in schools leads to early licensing. There is no evidence that driver education reduces road crash involvement. It may lead to a modest but potentially important increase in the proportion of teenagers involved in traffic crashes.
Top line: Cycle training is valuable in terms of cycling safety skills. However, other strategies are needed when promoting cycling to school such as that any training should focus more on real cycling experiences, so that children are able to deal with traffic on school journeys, and on providing educational support to ensure safe journeys to school. For most children, bicycles are the most important means of transport as they make it possible to cover greater distances independently. Moreover, bicycles are also used to a great extent in play activities. Children who cycle, however, expose themselves to risks, as can be seen from a number of studies investigating bicycle-related accidents. Nine to 12 year-olds especially who have been found to represent a critical age group for cycling accidents.
Dr Adrian Davis Top line: Walking to work can make a substantive contribution to daily physical activity, contributing to reducing preventable deaths, and improving health in the workplace. There is compelling evidence that regular physical activity is effective in the prevention of chronic diseases (eg cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, hyper-tension, obesity, depression) … Continued
Dr Adrian Davis Top line: Vigilance is needed to ensure that road safety policies promoted by organisations with potential financial conflicts of interest are based on sound evidence of effectiveness. Worldwide, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in road crashes each year and as many as 50 million are injured.1 Most of these are … Continued
Top line: Many societies have become organised on the basis of high use of private motor transport. Policy approaches in transport planning, law and enforcement appear central to mitigating inequalities in safety and accessibility for pedestrians and cycle users.
Top line: The National Planning Policy Framework defines the key term “sustainable development” by specifying economic, social and environmental dimensions. The social dimension puts health and wellbeing centre stage. This removes excuses for inaction by some practicing planners, that health is not a material consideration in planning decisions.
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