Contributors

Foreword

Baroness Chalker of Wallasey

Preface

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

Barbara M. Judge

1. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

SECTION 1. POLLUTION AND HEALTH

2. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

3. Transport and health: assessing the risks

Anthony J. McMichael

4. Approaches to scientific uncertainty

David Gee

5. Research methods in air pollution epidemiology

Klea Katsouyanni

6. Health effects of air pollution from traffic: ozone and particulate matter

Joel Schwartz

Discussion

Ross Anderson

7. Scientific basis for establishing air quality standards: their role in quantitative risk assessment and in monitoring the effectiveness of intervention strategies

Isabelle Romieu

Discussion

Bert Brunekreef

SECTION 2. TRAFFIC AND INJURY

8. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

9. Injuries and deaths on the roads--an international perspective

Ekkehard Bruhnin

Discussion

Anthony R. Taig

10. Issues in transport injury research

Philip H. Bly

Discussion

Dinesh Mohan

11. Road safety in the developing world

Godfrey D. Jacobs

SECTION 3. THE WIDER PUBLIC HEALTH

12. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

13. Evaluating the wider impact on health and quality of life

John R. Ashton

14. Raising the profile of health in setting urban agendas

Gregory Goldstein

15. Health promotion: the potential of non-motorized transport

Mayer Hillman

SECTION 4. CITY CASE STUDIES

16. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

17. Innovative urban transport planning-examples from Europe: car-free town centres and residential areas-utopia or reality?

Carmen Hass-Klau

18. Transport and environmental quality in Arhus, Denmark: targets and priority areas of action

Jorgen Bunde

19. Automobile dependence in Bangkok: an international comparison with implications for planning policies and air pollution

Jeffrey R. Kenworthy

20. Issues in planning for heterogeneous traffic: the case study of Delhi

Geetam Tiwari

21. Shaping transport and health policy: a case study in the Boston Metropolitan Area, Massachusetts, USA

Daniel S. Greenbaum

22. Transport in London and the implications for health

Jake Ferguson

Mark McCarthy

SECTION 5. TRANSPORT POLICIES

23. Introduction

Tony Fletcher

Anthony J. McMichael

24. Are transport policies driven by health concerns?

Philip B. Goodwin

25. Assessing the full cost of cars: can the market deliver?

Kenneth J. Button

26. Sustainable transport policies: state of the art

Felix Walter

Stefan Suter

Rene Neuenschwander

27. Overview--future directions in policy and research

John Whitelegg

28. Future directions in policy and research: a public health perspective

Jens Steensberg

Index