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Health impact assessment (HIA) is a method of analyzing and communicating the potential health-related outcomes of policies and projects in a variety of fields, including transportation. The transportation policy process already has formal routines to incorporate information about air quality, noise, safety, and other health issues. However, the HIA method could broaden the set of issues under consideration (e.g., physical activity), the types of decisions assessed, and the actors involved. In theory, HIA seeks to influence transportation decisions and serve as a platform for public participation, but the literature is not clear about how HIAs in practice influence decisions and support participation. We used the Health Impact Project (HIP) archive to analyze 59 HIAs on transportation issues conducted between 2005 and 2016 in the United States. We critically reviewed each HIA, and developed a categorization strategy to create a typology of HIAs according to the transportation decisions they sought to influence, the partnerships it created, and the types of participation it used. We found that HIA has predominantly been a point of entry for the public health profession to be active in transportation, rather than a learning process originating with transportation professionals or grassroots initiatives. Our typology revealed that HIAs have been conducted for diverse purposes including influencing decisions, but the majority, instead, framed their purpose as providing information, expressing community support, building capacity, or serving as a planning tool. Participation in HIAs drew from government agencies across multiple sectors, but its reach seldom included grassroots community groups. The future of HIA practice in public health and transportation could build on the HIA’s adaptability to the local decision-making context, and embrace its various forms of informal policy influence. In addition, future practice could increase public participation among members of general public and organized grassroots groups.
Carolyn McAndrews; Elizabeth Deakin. Public health sector influence in transportation decision-making: The case of health impact assessment. Case Studies on Transport Policy 2018, 8, 1116 -1125.
AMA StyleCarolyn McAndrews, Elizabeth Deakin. Public health sector influence in transportation decision-making: The case of health impact assessment. Case Studies on Transport Policy. 2018; 8 (3):1116-1125.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarolyn McAndrews; Elizabeth Deakin. 2018. "Public health sector influence in transportation decision-making: The case of health impact assessment." Case Studies on Transport Policy 8, no. 3: 1116-1125.
With the rapid growth occurring in the urban regions of China, it is critical to address issues of sustainability through practices that engender holistic energy efficient solutions. In this paper, we present results from a collaborative design project carried out with planning officials from the city of Jinan (population 3.4 million), for the Luokou district, a 3.1 km2 (1.2 mi2) area to the north of the CBD that is expected to house 100,000–130,000 people by 2020. By integrating sustainable building design, land use, urban design, and transportation, our proposal identified opportunities for improving energy efficiency that might have been overlooked by considering buildings and transportation separately. Mixed land uses and walkable neighborhoods were proposed along with highly differentiated street designs, intended to carry different traffic loads and prioritize diverse travel modes. Street widths and building heights were adjusted to maximize the potential for passive solar heating and daylight use within buildings. The district’s environmental performance, analyzed using building energy evaluation and traffic micro simulation models, showed that the design would reduce energy loads by over 25% compared to business as usual. While the proposal complied with national and local policies, and had far better energy performance than conventional designs, the proposal ultimately was not accepted by local officials because initial costs to the developers were higher than for conventional designs.
Manish Shirgaokar; Elizabeth Deakin; Nicolae Duduta. Integrating Building Energy Efficiency with Land Use and Transportation Planning in Jinan, China. Energies 2013, 6, 646 -661.
AMA StyleManish Shirgaokar, Elizabeth Deakin, Nicolae Duduta. Integrating Building Energy Efficiency with Land Use and Transportation Planning in Jinan, China. Energies. 2013; 6 (2):646-661.
Chicago/Turabian StyleManish Shirgaokar; Elizabeth Deakin; Nicolae Duduta. 2013. "Integrating Building Energy Efficiency with Land Use and Transportation Planning in Jinan, China." Energies 6, no. 2: 646-661.
The internationalization of policy regimes and the reorganization of the state have provided new opportunities for cities to bypass nation-state structures and work with other cities internationally. This provides greater opportunity for cities to learn from each other and could be an important stimulus to the transfer of policies across the globe. Few studies exist however which focus on the processes that shape the search for policy lessons and how they are affected by the institutional context within which they are conducted. This paper describes research conducted in the field of urban transport and planning policy across eleven cities in Northern Europe and North America which seeks to explore the motivations for and mechanisms supporting learning about new policies. Thirty policies were examined across the eleven sites using document review and interviews with key actors. The paper explores the search for lessons and the learning process and considers the influences of institutional context, organizational behaviour, and individual cognitive constraints. The process of seeking out and learning policy lessons is defined by individuals operating within a particular policy space and exhibits a number of characteristics of strongly bounded rational choice. The search parameters are significantly influenced by preconceptions of the nature of the preferred solutions and the likelihood of cities in other contexts offering meaningful learning opportunities. Trusted peer networks emerge as critical in overcoming information overload, resource constraints, and uncertainty in the potential for policy transfer. The mobility of policies seems also to be linked to the mobility of the key transfer agents. Cities adopt quite different approaches to engaging with the communities of policy mobilizers which seems likely to impact on the pace and pattern of the movement of policies.
Greg Marsden; Karen Trapenberg Frick; Anthony D May; Elizabeth Deakin. Bounded Rationality in Policy Learning Amongst Cities: Lessons from the Transport Sector. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 2012, 44, 905 -920.
AMA StyleGreg Marsden, Karen Trapenberg Frick, Anthony D May, Elizabeth Deakin. Bounded Rationality in Policy Learning Amongst Cities: Lessons from the Transport Sector. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2012; 44 (4):905-920.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGreg Marsden; Karen Trapenberg Frick; Anthony D May; Elizabeth Deakin. 2012. "Bounded Rationality in Policy Learning Amongst Cities: Lessons from the Transport Sector." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 44, no. 4: 905-920.
California has adopted innovative legislation to tackle climate change. Energy-efficient buildings, lower-emissions industrial processes, and more fuel-efficient transportation vehicles operating on cleaner fuels are among the many strategies that are being implemented. However, to attain the needed reductions, California must find additional strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, especially from the transportation sector, which is a large fraction of the total emissions problem. This paper discusses the efforts that are underway to further increase transportation efficiency, shift transportation to less CO2-intensive modes, and slow or reverse growth in vehicle-kilometers of travel (VKT). The legislative mandate is leading to a new focus on methods for quantifying travel changes and emissions reductions, ranging from spreadsheet approaches to integrated transportation-land use models. It also is renewing interest in travel-demand management and land-use policies that could reduce overall travel. While a number of cities have embraced these strategies, their success in the face of the state’s continuing growth will likely depend on both federal and state policies and funding incentives.
Elizabeth Deakin. Climate Change and Sustainable Transportation: The Case of California. Journal of Transportation Engineering 2011, 137, 372 -382.
AMA StyleElizabeth Deakin. Climate Change and Sustainable Transportation: The Case of California. Journal of Transportation Engineering. 2011; 137 (6):372-382.
Chicago/Turabian StyleElizabeth Deakin. 2011. "Climate Change and Sustainable Transportation: The Case of California." Journal of Transportation Engineering 137, no. 6: 372-382.