Transport affects everyone--it enables access to social activities,
employment, leisure, goods and services. But with traffic levels
estimated to nearly double by the year 2025, there is cause for
concern. Strategies to reduce the harmful effects of motor vehicles
such as emission controls are welcome, but are likely to be
outweighed by the projected increases in motor traffic over the
next 25 years.
Without a fundamental shift in policy away from the care to
other forms of transport, it is inevitable that the transport
sector will continue to impose large and growing costs on human
health and the environment.
This BMA report serves to highlight the many ways in which
transport policy affects health, considering not the more obvious
effects such as accidents and pollution but also other consequences
of transport policy such as the decline of public transport
services, particularly in rural areas, the lowering of the quality
of life of inner-city residents and the associated lack of physical
activity leading to unhealthy lifestyles.
As well as making recommendations and suggesting some possible
solutions, this report aims to promote a broader debate of
transport policy and health, which will highlight to the medical
profession, public and government the many adverse effects that
certain transport policies may have on our health and
environment.
This report will be of interest to all member of the public and
is essential reading for students, policy makers, town planners,
environmental health experts, doctors and other health care
professionals.
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