Posts Tagged ‘review’
Transport Measures Which Change Travel Behaviour: Evidence Review
Posted in Research, Tools by Kate Archdeacon on April 4th, 2011
Source: Eastern Region Public Health Observatory (ERPHO) via Victoria Walks
This review of the evidence of travel change behaviour can be used:
- to help make the case for new investment, in bids or business plans.
- to inform any re-assessment of existing programmes so that decisions can be based on the best evidence of effectiveness and value.
- as a benchmark to compare the effectiveness of local programmes with published evaluations and evidence.
- to encourage more sharing of evidence about what works.
- to act as a focal point for new evidence, with annual updates.
Key messages include:
- Travel behaviour change measures can provide very high benefits compared to costs, when measured by WebTAG, the Department for Transport’s method for evaluating transport investment.
- Changing how we travel can reduce the need for expensive infrastructure.
- Behaviour change measures can be implemented much more quickly than infrastructure projects.
- All measures achieve genuine carbon reductions (from 5kgs to 1500 kgs per person per year).
- Greater impact is achieved from careful targeting of people likely to change their behaviour combined with multi-measure programmes across age groups.
Source: Eastern Region Public Health Observatory (ERPHO)
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Bioneering ahead!
Posted in Visions by fedwards on October 28th, 2008
Posted recently on the excellent blog, Worldchanging.com, is a review of the Bioneers conference. Bioneers are “social and scientific innovators from all walks of life and disciplines who have peered deep into the heart of living systems to understand how nature operates, and to mimic “nature’s operating instructions” to serve human ends without harming the web of life“. Now in its 19th year the Bioneers conference had some fantastic speakers, including Janine Benyus, Ray Anderson, Bill McKibben, David Orr, Naomi Klein, and others. To view the review by author Jeremy Faludi and get inspired by some innovative environmentally-engaged thought, click here.