Health promotion research and advocacy

The Institute for Sensible Transport provides a wide range of services to the health sector, to help create a supportive environment for healthy living. Our expertise in population health, transport and land use planning allows for the development of evidence based interventions to increase levels of physical activity.

Our services include:

• Municipal physical activity plans
• Research into world’s best practice on economic assessment of active transport
• Place based bicycle strategy development, including infrastructure improvements and complementary travel demand management measures to increase uptake of active transport
• Expertise on social marketing focused on the area of active transport
• Presentations and reports on world’s best practice infrastructure design to increase walking and cycling
• Understanding of federal funding opportunities in the area of active transport infrastructure investment