Active Transport

Transport Pollution

• 27 Mar 2019
• Active Transport Air Pollution
• A/Prof Vicki Kotsirilos

The Driven: Australian doctors call for better EV policy in wake of WHO air pollution report

• 5 Nov 2018
• Active Transport Air Pollution News
• Dr Graeme McLeay

Australia has significant pollution levels, and needs to phase out coal and to reform vehicle emissions controls, following the release of a WHO report that highlighted the terrible impacts of air pollution, particularly on children.  DEA's Dr Graeme McLeay told The Driven, that despite the urgency, the ministerial forum on electric vehicles in 2015  has so far lead to “zero action”, and added that something must be done, and soon. 

Senate Select Committee on Electric Vehicles submission

• 31 Jul 2018
• Active Transport Submissions
• Admin 

Current and future impacts of climate change on housing, buildings and infrastructure submission

• 24 Aug 2017
• Active Transport Climate Change Health Systems Submissions
• Joy Oddy

….It is also increasingly apparent that, even with a 2°C rise, the world will be greatly changed from present, with economic budgets greatly stressed by reparation of infrastructure and all the pillars of life, water, food, air quality and biodiversity-resilience under stress and facing likely deterioration…..

Study: Walking can save lives and money

• 15 Feb 2017
• Active Transport
• Hakan Yaman

Research that Population Health Professor Marj Moodie and I have conducted has found that incidental physical activity from active transport, such as walking to catch the train to work or cycling to the shops, can save lives and money.

Study: Walking can save lives and money

• 12 Jan 2015
• Active Transport Opinion Pieces
• Carmela Ferraro

Research that Population Health Professor Marj Moodie and I have conducted has found that incidental physical activity from active transport, such as walking to catch the train to work or cycling to the shops, can save lives and money.

Do We Need Carbon For Transport?

• 4 Nov 2014
• Active Transport Opinion Pieces Presentations
• Joy Oddy

DEA Member Dr Bryan Furnass examines energy sources for transport across the ages, and considers a largely unexplored option: anhydrous ammonia or NH3.

Read more here: Do we need carbon for transport?

Submission to the Senate Inquiry into Public Transport

• 8 Feb 2014
• Active Transport Submissions
• Rebecca Osborne

It is important to be mindful of the fact that our health, physical and mental, is dependent on our environment. There are many and various pathways by which environmental change can and does impact human health in both the short and long term. This includes how we design our built environment, generate energy, organise health services and transport infrastructure; there is also a strong interrelationship between all of these systems.  In particular, urban transport infrastructure and consequently the modes of transport we use, have a range of both direct and indirect health impacts.

Humble pushie beats the car

• 19 Oct 2012
• Active Transport News
• Joy Oddy

YEPPOON GP Juerg Draeyer has been practising what he preaches and riding his bicycle to work for the past five years.

Transport and Health Poster

• 25 Nov 2008
• Active Transport Posters
• Admin

Doctors regularly see the adverse effects of private motor vehicles via patients injured in road traffic accidents. Despite the number of fatalities halving over the last 30 years due to random breath testing and improved road and vehicle design, Australia still recorded 1611 road crash deaths in 2007. (1) It has been predicted that by 2020 traffic accidents will be the third largest cause of global disability adjusted life years lost. (2)