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Overall health impacts of a potential increase in cycle commuting in Stockholm, Sweden
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Umeå universitet, Avdelningen för hållbar hälsa, 2021.
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Abstract
- Aims: To estimate the overall health impact of transferring commuting trips from car to bicycle. Methods: In this study registry information on the location of home and work for residents in Stockholm County was used to obtain the shortest travel route on a network of bicycle paths and roads. Current modes of travel to work were based on travel survey data. The relation between duration of cycling and distance cycled was established as a basis for selecting the number of individuals that normally would drive a car to work, but have a distance to work that they could bicycle within 30 minutes. The change in traffic flows was estimated by a transport model (LuTrans) and effects on road traffic injuries and fatalities were estimated by using national hospital injury data. Effects on air pollution concentrations were modelled using dispersion models. Results: Within the scenario, 111,000 commuters would shift from car to bicycle. On average the increased physical activity reduced the one-year mortality risk by 12% among the additional bicyclists. Including the number of years lost due to morbidity, the total number of disability adjusted life-years gained was 696. The amount of disability adjusted life-years gained in the general population due to reduced air pollution exposure was 471. The number of disability adjusted life-years lost by traffic injuries was 176. Also including air pollution effects among bicyclists, the net benefit was 939 disability adjusted life-years per year. Conclusions: Large health benefits were estimated by transferring commuting by car to bicycle.
- Subjects :
- Transportteknik och logistik
Health impact
air pollution
Physical activity
Air pollution
physical activity
Transportation
010501 environmental sciences
medicine.disease_cause
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Environmental health
Air Pollution
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
traffic injuries
Transport Systems and Logistics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Sweden
DALY
Study Registry
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Scenario
General Medicine
Bicycling
Geography
Work (electrical)
health impact assessment
transport
TRIPS architecture
bicycling
Health impact assessment
human activities
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0a044d3297e110127182828f5fb57776