Why Walkability?

Be taught a number of the newest analysis on how walkability impacts well being. Be part of main well being and walkability researcher Dr. Lawrence Frank, Professor at UC San Diego and President of City Design 4 Well being (UD4H) on the weather of land use and road design that result in folks strolling extra, and what which means for addressing continual illness. Dr. Frank will present new outcomes from the applying of the Nationwide Public Well being Evaluation Mannequin in a number of areas of the nation with each transportation and well being based mostly customers. He shall be joined by planners who’ve used analysis on well being impacts to affect regional and native transportation planning and inside public well being. Subsequent steps for these instruments and their utility shall be mentioned. Current developments have included the incorporation of “complete-street” pedestrian design options captured by AI pushed instruments utilizing digital photographs.e.

Webinar studying targets: 

• Newest analysis on how walkability impacts well being 
• A “re-conceptualization” of what walkability means and what components it contains
• Relative roles of land use, transportation, and road design components in defining walkability
• State of the follow together with pedestrian scale road design options and predicting well being outcomes.
• Instruments you need to use to investigate walkability and predict downstream financial impacts in your neighborhood.
• Insights from regional planners on combine well being outcomes in transportation planning processes.

Watch Our Earlier Webinar:

Like all of our webinars, this shall be recorded and out there after the actual fact. However you’ll need to be part of us in real-time when you can for the chance to ask questions of our friends. You’ll additionally obtain ample sources and extra supplies when you RSVP.

Be part of us: Wednesday, January fifteenth

2:00pm – 3:00pm, Jap