Examples of applications of the health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for cycling

HEAT has been used to support the evaluation and planning of walking and cycling in several countries within and outside the European Region.

Austria: HEAT boosts intersectoral collaboration on transport policy in Austria

Belgium: Brussels uses HEAT to calculate benefits of increased cycling in the city

Estonia: Pärnu uses the HEAT to secure funds for a new bike path

Finland: Finland makes HEAT guidance documents widely available in the country

Finland: Kuopio values employee cycling

France: transport and environment research organizations promote HEAT in France

Greece: Trikala estimates value of increasing number of cyclists and distance travelled

Italy: Modena uses the HEAT for ambitious cycling projections

Italy: Palermo calculates benefits of walking just 10 additional minutes per day

Latvia: Tukums calculates benefits of encouraging occasional cyclists to ride more often

Netherlands: the value of cycling in one of the world’s bicycle capitals

Portugal: Viana do Castelo values public space and cycling infrastructure

Romania: Brașov sets out to make cycling a way of life

Spain: Barcelona values walking and cycling across the city

Spain: the Bicing cycle hire scheme, Barcelona

Spain: Toledo uses HEAT to calculate benefits of new cycle path

Sweden: Sweden integrates core aspects of HEAT into the country’s own assessment tool

The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia: Skopje values current levels of cycling

United Kingdom /England: Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) strengthens case for community path in Oxford

United Kingdom /England: Transport for London uses HEAT to enhance benefit–cost ratios of cycling infrastructure

United Kingdom/England: Transport for Greater Manchester makes a business case for its ambitious cycling plan

United Kingdom /England: Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) used to evaluate United Kingdom’s Cycling Demonstration Towns programme

United Kingdom/England: Brighton and Hove values a Cycling Town

United Kingdom/Scotland: Glasgow values its Strategic Plan for cycling

United Kingdom/Wales : affirming the value of walking on the Wales Coast Path

United States: Boston conducts a unique ‘negative’ HEAT assessment