Safe walking and cycling in urban areas

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Promoting safe walking and cycling is a way to address physical inactivity, one of the risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). NCDs are responsible for a large part of the disease burden in Europe, and their growth is startling.

This area of activity focuses on:

  • exchanging and disseminating good practices;
  • improving the assessment of health effects from cycling and walking, and of the costs and benefits of promoting non-motorized transport.
Health economic assessment tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking

Online tool to estimate the reduction in mortality resulting from regular walking or cycling, along with method and guidance for practitioners on inclusion of health effects in economic valuations of transport interventions that facilitate cycling and walking

Collaboration between the health and transport sectors in promoting physical activity

48 case studies from 11 countries