Latest Active travel Stories

The Active Travel programme has now made it even easier to walk or cycle to the London 2012 Games, with the introduction of new maps, guides walks and cycles, and cycling services and facilities. (PRWEB) July 04, 2012 The Active Travel programme has now made it even easier to walk or cycle to the London 2012 Games, with the introduction of new maps, guides walks and cycles, and cycling services and facilities. The new services and resources include: Cycle parking at every venue –...

Results from pilot project show increase in active travel, decrease in traffic congestion around schools PETERBOROUGH, ON, May 31, 2012 /CNW/ - New data from Canada Walks shows that a whopping 41 per cent of children were driven to school before a School Travel Planning project took aim to reduce that number by increasing the rate of walking and cycling for the school journey. After School Travel Planning projects began to improve street infrastructure, increase awareness of...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) --What do access to playgrounds, food corner stores, and socioeconomic status all have in common? According to researchers, they could all be major reasons behind the rising obesity rates in America’s youth. The research was presented at the Obesity Society’s 29th annual scientific conference held in Orlando, Florida. Nicolas M. Oreskovic, M.D., MPH, a practicing internist and pediatrician, at Harvard Medical School, presented a review of studies he and other...

Better infrastructure and targeted programs needed to encourage active travel, finds Rutgers professor and study leader John Pucher A new study led by a Rutgers researcher and published in the American Journal of Public Health reports a significant increase in walking between 2001 and 2009 in the United States, but only slight growth in cycling.John Pucher, a professor at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, headed the team from Rutgers, Virginia Tech and the...