Health Benefit Assessment for Urban Public Bicycle System
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Tang, Ta-Yen
Abstract
In recent years, in order to mitigate significant environmental issues, such as global warming and the energy crisis, "Sustainable Development" has become an important transportation policy for many metropolises all around the world.
Among various sustainable transportation policies, the Public Bike System or so call Bike-Share System has become the important transportation infrastructure in many countries for improving traffic environment, reducing traffic pollution and carbon emissions. Public bike system can not only serve the demand of transportation, but also benefits our society environmentally and our healthiness as well. Many researches indicate that those who regularly do cycling, could gain tremendous health benefits form reducing risk of developing cardiovascular diseases and decreasing mortality rates, and help to improve mental health as well. And, those health benefits to our bodies could also become great economic benefits to our society.
In Taiwan, the trend of cycling has gone widely nowadays. The Public Bike systems in Taipei City and Kaohsiung City both have remarkable operation scale and usage. And now, New Taipei city, Taichung, Changsha, Tainan and Hsinchu are all starting their urban public bike system plan. The purpose of this study is to establish a health economic assessment model for our urban public bicycle system by assessing both the health benefits from the regularly physical activity and the heath impact from air pollutions exposures during cycling with relative risk in all-cause mortality.
This study used the model to assess the public bike system both in Taipei and Kaohsiung. The result shows that the cyclist both in Taipei and Kaohsiung could gain more health benefits then health impacts during cycling. And also, compare to those who don’t do cycling, cyclist would have lower relative risk of mortality. This study discuss the health benefit and impact under different environment and cycling scenarios. Hope this model and the results of assessment could be the reference for policy makers and operators.
Subjects
公共自行車系統
健康經濟
死亡率相對風險
PM2.5細懸浮微粒
空氣污染暴露
Type
thesis
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