TRB Committee on Transportation and Public Health AME70
NOTE: For the Triennial Strategic Plan (TSP), please check under PROJECTS.
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
Seeking Ambassadors: Communications Guide
We are recruiting ambassadors to share a ready-made PowerPoint (link) of key findings from the NCHRP Guidebook for Communications between Transportation and Public Health Communities (Guide). You do not have to be an expert on the Guide to share it. We would appreciate you letting people know it’s out there! An upcoming speaking engagement, staff meeting, or gathering of a working group or task force that you participate in provide excellent opportunities to share the Guide. Please adapt it for your audience and time available. Contact us with questions and we would love to hear your thoughts on the Guide and how you are putting it into practice: AME70@trbhealth.org.
About the Committee
AME70, the TRB Standing Committee on Transportation and Public Health, creates a space for engineers, health professionals, planners, epidemiologists, economists, advocates, elected officials, and academics to expand knowledge about the positive and negative health impacts of transportation policies, procedures, and actions.
The committee's scope includes equity and an array of social and environmental determinants of health.
Get Involved in AME70
There are many ways to get involved with the Committee through activities scoped to accommodate the time and effort you can contribute.
We are a group of volunteers; the projects we undertake and accomplish reflect the work of our friends and members. You do not have to be a member to contribute or stay connected.
AME70 Social Media
Some Resources of Interest
The American Public Health Association (APHA) has made some policy statements on transport and health. See them here:
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) has some "quick bites" on transport and health that can be found here:
https://www.ite.org/technical-resources/topics/transportation-and-health/resources/
Share a ready-made PPT with colleagues (link)
Please join us at the Annual Meeting :
Transportation and Public Health Committee Meeting
Event Date and Time: Tuesday, Jan 11, 2022 8:00AM - 12:00PM
Lectern session: Collaborations During COVID-19: Did We Learn Anything That Will Stick?
Event Number: 1362
Event Date and Time: Wednesday, Jan 12, 2022 8:00AM - 9:30AM
Lectern session (co-sponsored): Toward a Fair Transport Research Agenda for a Time of Recovery
Monday, January 10 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM ET
Convention Center, 144
Poster session: Innovations in Health-Related Transportation Research
Monday, January 10 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM ET
Convention Center, Hall A
Poster session: Expanding Our COVID-19 Knowledge Base
Monday, January 10 1:30 PM- 3:00 PM ET
Convention Center, Hall A
Poster session (co-sponsored): TRB Minority Student Fellows Research Presentations
Tuesday, January 11 10:30 AM- 12:00 PM ET
Convention Center, Hall A
Workshop: Do You Count If You Are Not Counted?: An Exploration of Systematic Bias in Crash Data Systems
Thursday, January 13 9:00 AM- 12:00 PM ET
Convention Center, Salon C
PAST (2019): Conference on Health and Active Transportation
Link to proceedings of the CHAT conference
Members
TRB’s over 200 standing committees are communities of individuals who share an interest and expertise in transportation. AME70 is about Health—Public Health and Population Health. Committee membership is limited to 25 core members who lead the activities of a community of friends and volunteers.
Current Activities
Triennial strategic plan \ paper reviews \ content for our listserv and social media \ workshop planning \ research dissemination \ case studies of health and transportation programs, policies, and practices
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.