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Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review        
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Traffic Calming: Political Dimensions
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Links
Readings
Built Environment. A long list of readings on the site of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health.

Public Health and Land Use Planning: How Ten Public Health Units are Working to Create Healthy and Sustainable Communities (2011). On the site of The Clean Air Partnership.

Periodicals
Built Environment. Periodical, published quarterly. On the site of the Alexandrine Press.

Environment and Planning - journals. Four journals available on the Environment and Planning website.

Ideas/Best Practices/Examples
Planning By Design: a healthy communities handbook. On the site of Ontario's Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing

3 Way Street Video by Ron Gabriel. On the site vimeo.com.

StreetsWiki. Wiki site for transportation, urban environmental, and public space issues.

Revisiting Donald Appleyard's Livable Streets. Video on the site StreetFilms.org. "Documenting Livable Streets Worldwide".

Congress for the New Urbanism. (United States)

National Complete Streets Coalition. (United States)

National Association of City Transportation Officials. (United States) Features a series of best practice videos.

Cities: successes at increasing public transit /active transport use and reduction of car use.
Vancouver.

New York.

Paris. (Transportation section in French only.)

Copenhagen.

Conference
Designing streets as public spaces in northern climate cities. Video of a public conference organized by Montréal's Urban Ecology Centre in February, 2010. On the site of WebTV.COOP


Contact
François Gagnon

Olivier Bellefleur


Urban Traffic Calming and Environmental Noise: Effects and Implications for Practice
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on traffic noise.
Published in May 2012.  Description.  Download  1 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming and Air Quality: Effects and Implications for Practice
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on air quality.
Published in May 2012.  Description.  Download  1.04 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming and Road Safety: Effects and Implications for Practice
This document briefly presents the effects of traffic-calming interventions on the number and severity of collisions.
Published in February 2012.  Description.  Download  3 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming and Health: A Literature Review
This literature review examines the effects of traffic calming in urban environments on four determinants of health (collisions, air quality, noise, and active transportation).
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download    5.5 MB
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Glossary of Traffic-calming Measures
This bilingual glossary describes and illustrates 28 traffic-calming measures.
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download    5.3 MB
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Urban Traffic Calming: Summary Tables of Evaluative Studies
These tables constitute a synthesis, with comments, of the evaluations of traffic-calming interventions referred to in our literature review.
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download     1.62 MB
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Traffic Calming: Political Dimensions
This document situates and describes the key policy differences between two general approaches to traffic-calming: the black-spots approach, and the area-wide approach.
Published in November 2011.  Description.  Download    897 K
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Traffic Calming: An Equivocal Concept
This briefing note is a historical introduction to three meanings of the concept of traffic calming.
Published in September 2011.  Description.  Download  601 K
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Transportation Policies and Health Inequalities
This document presents a summary of the discussions that took place during a workshop on transportation policies and health inequalities.
Published in May 2011.  Description.  Download  572 K
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Built Environment - Public Policy, Actors, Barriers, and Levers
This publication presents a report from a session facilitated by François Gagnon during a knowledge exchange colloquium on the built environment, held in November 2010. In this session, participants worked with the Advocacy Coalition Framework as a tool for mapping out networks of actors in a policy field.
Published in April 2011.  Description. Download   571 K  
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Public Health Authorities, Public Policies and the Built Environment: Reference Framework
The built environment is a concern for many public health actors who promote healthy public policies. This fact sheet shows some of the links between the built environment, public policies and public health authorities.
Published in March 2011.  Description.  Download   972 K
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Public Health in the Era of Peak Oil
The Centre's François Gagnon interviewed University of Alberta Professor Dr. Donald Spady on the potential effects of peak oil for population health.
Published in October, 2010.  Description.  Download   164 K.
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The production of the NCCHPP website has been made possible through a financial contribution from the Public Health Agency of Canada.