Global and Local Health Impact Assessment of Transport: methods for prioritising model development (GLASST)

The way people and goods move significantly affects population health, making it essential for policymakers to use predictive models to understand how changes in travel patterns impact physical activity, exposure to air pollution, and traffic collision risks.

The EU-funded GLASST project is developing new transport and health impact models and tools that are academically robust and practically useful. Specifically, the project is developing new approaches to help understand why different models produce different results. This information will be used to integrated health issues into the models used by transport planners and to create and test a new model for archetypal cities across the world.