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Building a Healthy Society and Workforce: Awareness and Prevention of Diabetes |
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3.17 PRESTO: Promoting Cycling for Everyone as a Daily Transport Mode
Source: Intelligent Energy Europe, (date of information: 2014)
Link : Promoting cycling for everyone as daily transport mode (PRESTO)
Link (PDF): PRESTO Cycling Policy Guide
Application/Key learning points: Cycling is already a major mode of transport mode in some countries (e.g. Netherlands and Denmark). It can become a high impact measure to foster healthy and fitness-efficient transport patterns in cities without a real cycling culture. In keeping with the larger objectives of diabetes prevention, the long-term benefits of the urban cycling programme are many-fold, including the reducing of healthcare expenditures. Cities with no real bicycle culture in the past such as Frankfurt or Paris prove that increasing the share of cyclists within only a few years is possible, with the right policies and promotion in place. PRESTO best practices can be implemented in other regions. WHO developed the Health Economic Assessment Tool for cycling, which quantifies the positive health effects of both cycling and walking. In Austria, the tool estimated that cycling saves more than 400 lives every year due to regular physical activity. Other benefits include savings in public health care because of improved physical condition.
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