Share: Essential Evidence
Top line: Deployment of speed cameras leads to appreciable reductions in speed in the vicinity of the cameras and substantial reductions in collisions and casualties.
Top line: The increasing domination of motor traffic is heavily implicated in the drastic decline in children independent mobility. Controlling motor traffic is important in reversing the decline and improving children’s physical health and mental wellbeing.
Top line: Promoting walking or cycling to work (active commuting) could help to increase population physical activity levels. Moving home or workplace is a period when people (re)assess, and may be more likely to change, their travel behaviour.
Top line: Incrementalism – or muddling through – is a concept that helps us to understand better the processes of policy change and political decision making in democracies. Complex problems cannot be completely analysed and we therefore require strategies for skilful incompleteness through incremental rather than ‘big-steps’ changes.
Top line: More leisure time physical activity is associated with longer life expectancy across a range of activity levels and body weights. Walking is a key means through which many people can reduce their risk of premature death.
Top line: The value of a free month public transport card lies in its potential to capture previous car drivers and to retain their patronage once the free travel has ended. A precursor to such an intervention may be the need to enhance the general public transport offer such as quality of routes, frequency of service and reliability, as well as pricing.
West of England
