Developing tools to promote walking and cycling
Within THE PEP, WHO/Europe develops strategic and practical tools to make mobility green, healthy and inclusive – such as the Health Economic Assessment Tool (HEAT) for cycling and walking.
The HEAT open-ended project is coordinated by WHO, steered by a core group of multidisciplinary experts, and supported by an extensive group of ad hoc invited international experts from various fields. The project develops and updates methods to assess the health and economic value of walking and cycling, and implements them in an online tool.
HEAT for cycling and walking estimates the value of reduced mortality that results from regular walking or cycling, and is meant to be part of comprehensive cost–benefit analyses of transport interventions or infrastructure projects. It can be used by a wide variety of professionals at both national and local level, primarily transport planners, traffic engineers and special interest groups working on transport, walking, cycling or the environment.
