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This project focuses on exchanging and disseminating good practices and improving the assessment of health effects from cycling and walking, and of the costs and benefits of promoting non-motorized transport.

The project is part of the Transport, Health and Environment Pan-European Programme (THE PEP) and contributes to preventing injuries and ensuring adequate physical activity for all children, one of the goals of the WHO Children’s Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE).

Assessing the health effects, costs and benefits

• Methodology and tools to quantify the positive health effects of cycling and walking were developed, using a critical review of existing relevant studies and approaches. The overall goal was to harmonize ways to include health end-points into economic valuations of transport interventions that facilitate cycling and walking.
• Input from different sectors to the European Charter on Counteracting Obesity was provided as a contribution to a 2006 WHO ministerial conference, which addressed nutrition and physical activity as determinants of obesity.

Exchanging and disseminating good practices

• Forty-eight case studies from eleven countries on the collaboration between health and other sectors to promote physical activity are available online.
• Strategies, policies and measures to promote innovative policies to support walking and cycling as increasingly viable and attractive modes of urban mobility were identified in a workshop under THE PEP. Action points for policy-makers and other stakeholders are available online.