Development of the Health economic assessment tools (HEAT) for walking and cycling 6th Consensus group meeting

The meeting was convened to achieve scientific consensus on 6 specific recommendations for further development, and agreed:

1) to continue using all-cause mortality (ACM) also for HEAT assessments in a global context (i.e. also outside European Region of WHO), and to address considerations regarding the potential influence of varying underlying causes of death in additional user guidance on the HEAT website;

2)  to rephrase the user guidance on the proposed scope of the HEAT;

3)  to conduct a dedicated discussion with experts working in the area of the Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) used by HEAT to address the open issues;

4)  to include the new data entry options for air pollution, cycling and walking crash risk data, and population size data for global use;

5)  to pursue the development of different user interfaces with varying degrees of detail; and

6)  to start a development project to integrate e-biking into the HEAT.