Essential Evidence About The Impact of Road Transport on Public Health
Professor Adrian Davis has spent 35 years working on road transport and health, as a consultant, and as an academic. From 2008-16 he was embedded p/t into Bristol City Council’s Transport department by NHS Bristol. Adrian has been at Edinburgh Napier University since 2018. A founder member of the Transport and Health Science Group in 1988, he has been a consultant to the Department of Health, Department of Transport, World Health Organisation and other public bodies including the Welsh Government whom he advised on their introduction of a default 20 mph speed limit.
Since 2008 he has been producing the Essential Evidence series of one-page factsheets unlocking from academia the latest thinking on such impacts for public health as the collisions, congestion, pollution, severance and isolation caused by our car-dependence. Intended audiences of Essential Evidence are local authority staff and councillors, sustainable transport activists and academics. Content covers all health aspects from road transport and sustainable transport studies, aspects of road safety, politics and decision-making biases, car-dependency, and physical activity across the life-course. Every issue reports on at least one peer-reviewed study, ensuring its UK relevance and, where possible, is de-jargonised.
In 2025 Adrian received the Faculty of Public Health’s Bazalgette Professorship Champion of Evidence award.
This can event has 1 CPD hour against:
SUS2.1 Sustainable Ethical Practice
TP1.1 Transport Infrastructure and Network Resilience
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