This perspective explores how transportation decision-making can better support public health objectives, including reduced crashes and pollution emissions and increased physical activity. Conventional transportation planning tends to overlook negative health impacts resulting from increased motor vehicle travel and potential health benefits from shifts to alternative modes. Raising the priorit...

Technology already exists to capture and communicate a variety of information from motor vehicles. Automobiles are equipped with sensors and can reliably report their location, velocity, and condition via cellular telecommunications. Truck location tracking with global positioning systems is common, and prototype systems exist for characterizing surrounding traffic and roadway conditions. Given...

The transportation system has a number of adverse environmental impacts. The effects can be direct, indirect and both. Indirect effects may have greater consequences than direct effects, but are not generally well known. Transportation system and the operation of vehicles can affect rural and urban community. Emission and road crashes have a significant impact on health, and the form of the tra...

This letter constitutes the interim report of the Transportation Research Board Committee for the Study of a Motor Vehicle Rollover Rating System. This committee was convened in response to a request from the Congress asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to fund a study by the National Academy of Sciences on motor vehicle rollover. The main objectives of this report are (1) to present t...

This article focuses on the development of smart growth, which includes sustainable transportation policies and more efficient uses of land. Smart growth was developed to combat some of the negative consequences of transportation and land use laws developed in the past fifty years which created dependence on motor vehicles. The article examines these policies and their inconsistency with smart ...

Behavioral impairments are the most empirical consequence of diabetes mellitus documented in both humans and animal models, but the underlying causes are still poorly understood. As the cerebellum plays a major role in coordination and execution of the motor functions, we investigated the possible involvement of glial activation, cellular degeneration and glutamate transportation in the cerebel...

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