1. Policies that improve the environment and environmental public health -- 2. Policies that enhance community design and promote active transportation -- 3. Policies that reduce motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities.

This report examines the effects of transportation policies on public health in three key areas, environment and environmental public health, community design and active transportation, and motor vehicle-related injuries and fatalities.

Authored by a team of individuals headed by David R. Ragland, PhD, MPH Director of the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley and Phyllis Orrick, BA, SafeTREC Communications Director. -- p. i

This publication was made possible by cooperative agreement 3U58HM000216-05W1 between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Partnership for Prevention and through contracts with Booz Allen Hamilton and the Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC) at UC Berkeley.

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