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Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review        
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Traffic Calming: Political Dimensions
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Links
Readings/Periodicals/Blogs/Tools
Built Environment. A long list of readings on the site of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health.

Public Health and Land Use Planning: How Ten Public Health Units are Working to Create Healthy and Sustainable Communities (2011). On the site of The Clean Air Partnership.

Interactive map for analyzing the built environment and services in Québec. In French, on the site of the INSPQ.

Environment and Planning - journals. Four journals available on the Environment and Planning website.

Active Transportation Canada (blog)

Ideas/Best Practices/Examples
Examples Bank. Categories: Intersections, Stretches of Road, Bicycle Parking. On the site Fietsberaad (Netherlands) in English.

Planning By Design: a healthy communities handbook. On the site of Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

3 Way Street Video by Ron Gabriel. On the site vimeo.com.

StreetsWiki. Wiki site for transportation, urban environmental, and public space issues.

Revisiting Donald Appleyard's Livable Streets. Video on the site StreetFilms.org. "Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide".

National Complete Streets Coalition. (United States)

National Association of City Transportation Officials. (United States) Features a series of best practice videos.

Cities: successes at increasing public transit /active transport use and reduction of car use.
Vancouver.

New York.

Paris. (Transportation section in French only.) 

Conference
Designing streets as public spaces in northern climate cities. Video of a public conference organized by Montréal's Urban Ecology Centre in February, 2010. On the site of WebTV.COOP


Contact
François Gagnon

Olivier Bellefleur


Roundabouts for Public Health
This document presents roundabouts as traffic-calming devices of interest for the public health sector.
Published in January 2013.  Description.  Download  735 K
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Roundabouts can, under certain conditions, offer significant advantages regarding some health determinants (Bellefleur & Gagnon, 2011). Existing evaluations indicate that they produce effects that are of interest to those concerned with road injuries, active transport, ambient noise levels, air quality and energy-related issues, in particular.

This briefing note provides a frame of reference for public health actors by:
(1) Summarizing some of the significant characteristics of this intervention (history, design, reasons for and conditions of implementation);
(2) Briefly summarizing the evaluative literature concerning the effects of roundabouts on a few public health determinants;
(3) Identifying some potential courses of action for their promotion, along with some related considerations.

Roundabouts for Public Health      
10 pages               
 735 K

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Reference: Bellefleur, O. & Gagnon, F. (2011). Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review. Montréal, Québec : National Collaborating Centre for Healthy Public Policy. Retrieved from: http://www.ncchpp.ca /175/Publications.ccnpps?id_article=686

The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.