Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities
Planning and Transport for Healthy Cities brings together our expertise in understanding how cities are planned and designed to create more just, sustainable and healthy outcomes.
THAT-Brisbane builds on THAT-Melbourne, a Planning Institute of Australia Award winning tool for measuring life-time health benefits from walking and cycling.
Project dates: 2022–2023
This Project extends THAT-Melbourne to the city of Brisbane to measure chronic disease impacts from replacing short car trips with walking, cycling or a combination of both. The tool shows physical activity-related health impacts of changes in travel behaviour and provides metrics for Life Years, Health Adjusted Life Years (HALYs) and incidence and mortality from chronic diseases. THAT-Melbourne can be freely accessed through the Australian Urban Observatory and once complete, THAT-Brisbane will similarly be made available.
THAT metrics can be used to for advocacy purposes and for understanding the health benefits that come from undertaking more transport related physical activity.
Funding
The Australia Prevention Partnership Centre
Key people
- Lucy Gunn – Senior Research Fellow
- Melanie Davern – Director, Australian Urban Observatory
- Belen Zapata-Diomedi – Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow
- Alan Both – Research Fellow
- Steve Pemberton – Researcher
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