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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



Motorized Traffic and Health: Implementing Interventions to Mitigate Impacts - CPHA 2012
The NCCHPP was joined by speakers Dan Burden and Catherine Berthod at this free one-day preconference workshop at the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA) annual conference, June 11, 2012, in Edmonton.
Published in July 2012.  Description.
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Webinar on Traffic Calming with CHNET-Works!
The Centre collaborated with CHNET-Works! to present this webinar on May 10, 2012. François Gagnon and Olivier Bellefleur introduced the concept of traffic calming as it relates to health, and highlighted key points from our literature review.
Published in May 2012. Description.
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Urban Traffic Calming and Health - Presentations at the 2012 CDPAC Conference
The NCCHPP's Olivier Bellefleur gave two presentations during the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada's (CDPAC) Conference that was held from February 8 to 10, 2012, in Ottawa.
Published in February 2012.  Description.
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Building Healthy Communities
The Centre's François Benoit and François Gagnon participated in the Building Healthy Communities: Bringing Health and Wellness to the Community Planning Table conference on November 29th and 30th 2011, in St. John's, NL.
November 2011.  Description.
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Healthy Canada by Design Coalition - Knowledge exchange colloquium
As part of the NCCHPP's role in the Healthy Canada by Design coalition, the Centre's François Gagnon participated in a day-long colloquium held in Vancouver on November 24, 2010.
Published in April 2011.  Description.
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Altering the built environment to favour children's use of play areas
This presentation by the Centre's François Gagnon took place during a March, 2011 meeting about childhood obesity organized by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer (CPAC).
Presentation published in March 2011.  Description.  Download (from the site of CPAC)   1.19 MB.
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Workshop on Transportation Policies and Health Inequalities
In this workshop, a multisectoral group in Edmonton set out to identify health inequalities arising from transportation policies, and then searched for ways to address them.
Published in December, 2010.  Description.
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The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.