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How We Move Matters: Exploring the Connections between New Transportation and Mobility Options and Environmental Health--A Workshop

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Technology-enabled transportation services – like ridehailing, delivery apps, automated vehicles, and e-scooters – have revolutionized the way we move. But changing how we get around also impacts our environment. How does ridehailing affect air pollution? What are the environmental impacts of having packages delivered to our front door?

This workshop brought together experts in transportation, energy, environment, consumer behavior, and environmental health to explore the environmental health impact of evolving mobility options. Participants explored existing and needed research on the environmental health challenges related to emerging transportation services expected in the next decade. Download agenda.

Description

A planning committee will organize a workshop to discuss current research, practitioner experiences, and future challenges associated with environmental health and transportation over the next decade, with a focus on the changes occurring in the urban/suburban transportation system due to technology-enabled changes in transportation services and mobility options. These services could include ride-hailing companies and other shared mobility services, on-demand goods delivery, connected and automated vehicles, unmanned aircraft systems, and e-scooters. These new services have the potential to significantly impact urban/suburban transportation systems and travel demand in ways that could affect human health by changing the environment. The focus will be on direct and indirect impacts of these new technologies on air and noise pollution health related effects.
The workshop's objectives will be as follows:

  • Provide a forum for the environmental health and transportation sectors, along with experts in consumer behavior, to gather and apply environmental health perspectives to the consideration of new mobility options as part of the transportation system.
  • Identify research, policy, and communication needs related to the environmental health impacts of emerging transportation services and mobility options.
  • Stimulate potential collaborations to address environmental health benefits and challenges of transportation services and new mobility options.

The committee will plan and organize the workshop, select and invite speakers, and moderate the discussions. A brief proceedings of the presentations and discussions at the conference will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.

Collaborators

Committee

Chair

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Sponsors

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

EPA

ExxonMobil

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

National Academy of Sciences Cecil and Ida Green Fund

National Academy of Sciences George and Cynthia Mitchell Endowment for Sustainability Science

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

National Institutes of Health

Target Corporation

The Walmart Foundation

Staff

Christine Gerencher

Lead

CGerencher@nas.edu

Elizabeth Zeitler

EZeitler@nas.edu

Abigail Ulman

AUlman@nas.edu

Katherine Kortum

KKortum@nas.edu

Claire E. Randall

CRandall@nas.edu

Ania Zolyniak

AZolyniak@nas.edu

Jeremy Mathis

JMathis@nas.edu

Elise Zaidi

EZaidi@nas.edu

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