TRB Committee on Transportation and Public Health AME70

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Call for papers: https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/CallForPapers/Details/922 

TRB ANNUAL MEETING 2024

Paper submissions now open! 

The official call is here:

https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/CallForPapers/Details/922 

https://annualmeeting.mytrb.org/CallForPapers/Details/923 

Two different calls:

1) Expanding our Knowledge of Transportation and Health

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70) seeks papers expanding our understanding and evaluation of transportation and public health.

We welcome papers that contribute to the growing body of knowledge on transportation and health, including those that address concepts, principles, theories, methodologies, and applications. We are particularly interested in:

• Approaches in building health-promoting cross-sector collaborations and institutional relationships, as well as case studies describing them.

• Development and application of metrics to advance consideration of health impacts in transportation decision-making.

Research questions of interest to this call may include, but are not limited to:

• Evidence-based approaches to maximizing health benefits while addressing potential adverse impacts of planning and policy decisions through engineering and design.

• Examination of actionable policies for safe and healthy streets (e.g., the role of the safe-systems approach, Vision Zero, and guidelines for road danger reduction).

• Assessment and evaluation of the collaboration and coordination between different organizations (including those from the government and the private sector) to address complex health issues related to transportation.

• Innovative use of theoretical frameworks in practical applications to improve our understanding of the links between transportation and health.

• Quantification of health impacts and benefits of transportation actions and policies.

• Studies on changes in infrastructure design, mode shift, or transportation practice in response to recent emergencies (including but not limited to the COVID-19 pandemic).

• Studies the role of emerging technologies (e.g., autonomous vehicles, smart transportation systems) in promoting healthy and sustainable transportation options.

Papers (7,500 words or less—including the abstract, text, references, figures, and tables) must be electronically submitted to TRB no later than August 1, 2023. Papers may be submitted for publication only, presentation only, or for both presentation and publication. Please review the updated guidelines for information on paper format requirements and paper templates.

Select the title of this call in the Call for Papers dropdown box during paper submission to respond to this call.

For more information on this call for papers, contact:

David Ederer (Committee Paper Review Coordinator), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, xhj2 "at" cdc.gov

Ipek Nese Sener (Committee Chair), Texas A&M Transportation Institute,  i-sener "at" tti.tamu.edu

2) Equity in Transportation and Health

The Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation and Public Health (AME70) seeks papers expanding our understanding and evaluation of transportation and public health.

We welcome papers focusing on health and transportation equity, and their intersection. We are particularly interested in:

• Examination of transportation as a social determinant of health impacting upstream factors, such as access to education, healthcare, and employment.

Research questions of interest to this call may include, but are not limited to:

• Implementation and evaluation of plans and policies fostering health and transportation equity and acknowledging transportation as a social determinant of health.

• Exploration and examination of emerging technologies, tools, or data in better evaluating transportation-based health and equity outcomes.

• Exploring ways to improve transportation accessibility and reduce barriers for individuals with disabilities through policy decisions and universal design.

• Methods and models that help improve our knowledge of diverse impacts and issues related to health with respect to vulnerable populations.

• Evaluation of expanded access to transportation through geography, affordability, and inclusivity and effects of expanded access on physical, mental, and social health.

• Analysis of the intersectionality of health and transportation equity with other social determinants of health, such as race, gender, age, and socioeconomic status.

Papers (7,500 words or less—including the abstract, text, references, figures, and tables) must be electronically submitted to TRB no later than August 1, 2023. Papers may be submitted for publication only, presentation only, or for both presentation and publication.

Please review the updated guidelines for information on paper format requirements and paper templates.

Select the title of this call in the Call for Papers dropdown box during paper submission to respond to this call.

For more information on this call for papers, contact:

David Ederer (Committee Paper Review Coordinator), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, xhj2 "at" cdc.gov

Ipek Nese Sener (Committee Chair), Texas A&M Transportation Institute,  i-sener "at" tti.tamu.edu

Note: For reference, one may access the old Health and Transportation Subcommittee website https://sites.google.com/site/trbhealthandtransport/ or the TRB Task Force on Arterials and Public Health website https://sites.google.com/site/arterialstaskforce/. Both old sites were built in Google's "classic sites", which will be archived and removed in September 2021 because Google no longer supports them.