We are adopting new ways of working.
We recognise that improving health is a core part of what we do and we need to think about the potential to improve health through all our work. We commit to taking action so that by 2017 we more explicitly recognise and demonstrate our role in improving the health of Londoners. To deliver these actions we will need to work differently with our stakeholders. For example, we will work more closely with
the public health community and support joint working between public health and transport professionals. However in the context of a changing population, we cannot tackle the huge health challenges faced by London alone. A wide range of stakeholders need to align and work together.
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Action 1
We will quantify and where possible monetise the health impacts of our projects and policies.
• We will use the World Health Organization Health Economic Assessment Tool (WHO HEAT) in our business case development processes
• We will support our partner agencies in using WHO HEAT to assess proposals and evaluate activities
Expected outcome Our business cases will more accurately reflect the monetary benefits of measures which increase physical activity levels.
Action 2
We will explicitly build health into the development and assessment of policies and projects.
• We will ensure that health impacts are a central part of our Strategic Assessment Framework
Expected outcome Our policies and projects will have a more positive impact on health.
Action 3
We will evaluate the health impacts of our programmes.
• We will start by evaluating the delivery of the Mayor’s Vision for Cycling • We will share our evaluation methodology and results with other stakeholders Expected outcome We will develop an understanding of how we can maximise the health benefits of our policies and programmes and apply this to our future work.
Action 4
We will assess what we are doing against the public health evidence base.
• We will use this to ensure our actions are evidence based wherever possible • Where evidence is lacking we will contribute by publishing our evaluations Expected outcome Our policies and practices will be effective in improving health.
Action 5
We will strengthen our Health Impact Assessment processes to ensure that we are identifying opportunities to improve health as well as mitigate potential harms.
• We will encourage our partner agencies to work with us to realise the improvements that can be made when new schemes are delivered
Expected outcome The Health Impact Assessment process will deliver tangible improvements to health and will serve as a catalyst to other transport plans delivering health improvements.
Action 6
We will support staff to be more physically active as part of their daily lives and daily travel through walking and cycling and using public transport.
• We will promote active travel amongst our staff through our Health Improvement Plan lead by our occupational health service
• We will encourage other organisations – public, private and third sector – to do the same through our business engagement programme
Expected outcome The health of TfL’s staff and other workers in London will improve from being more physically active.
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Action 7
We will support boroughs to improve the health of their populations through their transport plans and investment.
• We will ask boroughs what support they would like from us to enable them to build relationships between transport and public health
• We will encourage boroughs to align their health and transport plans, indicators and investment through our reporting and bidding mechanisms
• We will ensure that our policies and investment have positive health impacts and thereby help boroughs to ensure that theirs also do
• We will disseminate to boroughs our analytical work which supports the alignment of transport and health improvement
Expected outcome The important role of transport and public realm in improving the health of Londoners will be explicitly recognised.
Action 8
We will work with public health intelligence specialists and academics.
• We will use analysis to better understand our role in reducing health inequalities • We will use demographic and health projections data to help us plan for meeting
the future health needs of Londoners
• We will translate research findings into our policy and practice
Expected outcome Our policies and plans will reflect the transport and health research findings and help to ensure London’s transport system supports our changing population and reduces inequalities.
Action 9
We will work with the NHS to encourage travel analysis in the earliest stages of planning for changes to healthcare provision.
• We will continue to provide advice and data from TfL’s Health Service Travel Analysis Toolkit (HSTAT) to NHS colleagues, in how to analyse changes in journey time and trip rates and how to most appropriately display relevant information as part of any consultation or public examination
• We will continue to provide expertise during healthcare reconfiguration planning such as data modelling, bus planning, stakeholder engagement, and travel planning information and guidance
Expected outcome The planning process for making changes to healthcare provision will include travel considerations at the earliest stages to ensure decision making is based on accurate travel data analysis and dialogue with TfL.
Action 10
With the Greater London Authority (GLA) we will urge central government to support our role in increasing the physical activity levels of Londoners.
• In particular we will engage with the Department for Transport, the Department for Communities and Local Government, the Department of Health and Public Health England
Expected outcome The national government departments will recognise the importance of active travel as a shared agenda and will support London in delivering our ambitious targets for increasing active travel.
How we will measure progress
We will assess the progress in making London’s streets better for health with the following indicators:
Impact Measure
Physical activity Percentage of trip stages walked or cycled
Air quality Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and
particulate matter (PM) on-street monitoring
Road traffic
collisions Reduction in killed or seriously injured (KSI) casualties from the 2005–9 average baseline Noise Average rating of transport
related noise Access and
severance Access to opportunities and services (ATOS) score Healthy streets Average rating of perception of