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The Working Group on Active Travel & Health is dedicated to preserving walking, wheeling, and cycling as integral parts of mobility systems while considering interactions with urban planning, environment and health.
The Active Travel & Health Working Group looks at the impact that urban and regional transport has on the environment and on health. Find out more abo… More...
On 25/11/2025, as a side event to the Annual POLIS Conference 2025, the Active Travel & Health Working Group hosted an in-person workshop on better wa… More...
How Small and Medium-Sized Cities (SMCs) can reduce car dependence, expand mobility choices, and create more inclusive urban transport systems: the co… More...
How walking, wheeling, and cycling infrastructure can reduce transport poverty and create more inclusive urban mobility was at the heart of the latest… More...
On 24–25 June 2025, POLIS’ Clean Vehicles & Air Quality, Safety & Security, and Active Travel & Health Working Groups focused effective communicat… More...
On 12 May 2025, the Active Travel & Health WG, CITWIN Project, and City of Aarhus held a webinar on using digital twins to improve walking and cycling… More...
The Small and Medium-Sized Cities Platform and the Access, Traffic Efficiency, and Active Travel & Health Working Groups met for a joint session in Tu… More...
On 4 March 2025, the POLIS–NAPCORE Focus Group workshop explored challenges local and regional authorities face in sharing data with NAPs, building … More...
As part of the city's Clean Air Policy, in April 2019, the Mayor of London launched the world’s first 24-hour Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in cent… More...
On 26 Nov 2024 at the POLIS Conference, the Active Travel & Health WG discussed strategies to prioritise walking and cycling and integrate them into p… More...
The Active Travel & Health Working Group looks at the impact that urban and regional transport has on the environment and on health. More...
As part of Urban October, POLIS’ Active Travel & Health Working Group hosted a webinar to explore initiatives promoting active travel across generat… More...
On 21-22 May 2024, the Active Travel & Health Working Group held a two-day meeting in Utrecht for a deep-dive study into how we can make our cities mo… More...
The workshop on cycling data held in Utrecht, brought together cities and local authorities to discuss their data needs and requirements regarding cyc… More...
As a side event of the Annual POLIS Conference 2023, the Active Travel & Health Working Group, in collaboration with the ACUTE project, organised a wo… More...
On 11 Apr 2024, POLIS Active Travel & Health, Traffic Efficiency WGs and NAPCORE cycling ambassadors held a webinar on cycling and the need for data s… More...
The AGA brought together the Working Group on Active Travel and Health to look forward to 2024 and which topics will be on the table across the next y… More...
Across 13-14 September, POLIS’ Traffic Efficiency Working Group traversed the leading issues shaping traffic management and how cities, regions and … More...
POLIS’ Small & Medium Sized City (SMC) Platform drew together cities from across Europe in La Rochelle to learn and exchange on data deployment, pro… More...
Transport is decisive in enabling (and disabling) travellers' access to fundamental human rights: from education to employment to healthcare. More...
During the 2022 Annual General Assembly, POLIS’ Active Travel & Health Working Group convened to reflect on activities conducted across the year, an… More...
On 8 July, POLIS and European Technology Platform ALICE, joined for a webinar facilitating the discussion between policy makers and logistics practiti… More...
It is often bike lanes which dominate discussions on cycling infrastructure, yet bike parking is an equally critical element in encouraging and suppor… More...
