Lunchtime Seminar Series: The Virtuous Cycle - Effective transport policies for a ‘healthy’ trip to work

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Location: At Room 730-441, Building 730, Tāmaki Innovation Campus

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Existing evidence is sufficient to seek a shift away from car dominant urban transport for climate, health and equity benefits. However, identifying effective policies for achieving such a mode shift while aligning these three goals requires an understanding of transport and “public health” as a complex system. 

This presentation summarises the results of  Dr Alex Macmillan's doctoral research. In that research she used participatory system dynamics modelling to develop a simulation model of bicycling and public health, so that various policy options could be simulated and their effects compared.

The speaker, Alex Macmillan (Senior Lecturer, Environmental Health) will present some background to the simulation model; demonstrating the comparative effects of five different policy scenarios to increase commuter bicycling on a range of public health outcomes; and describing how the theoretical approach and methodology has influenced the uptake of the results by policymakers.