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Advancing transport modelling for health applications https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.121149 Staves, Corin Woodcock, James Moeckel, Rolf Labib, SM The design of cities and transport systems influences population health. The way we move affects pollution exposures, traffic injury risk, physical activity, and many other determinants of health and well-being. The causal mechanisms are complex leading to micro-scale variations in health depending on people’s needs, itineraries and choices. There is an increasing research focus on understanding the health impacts of policies targeting travel behaviour. For example, health impact assessments estimate the health effects of behavioural shifts, usually with a focus on active travel. Existing methods are typically spatiotemporally aggregate and cannot offer insight into the mechanisms of behavioural change. Emerging methods from transport modelling could support health analyses by incorporating more advanced behavioural theory and capturing movements with high spatial and temporal precision. This dissertation explores how transport modelling can evolve to support health applications. Travel demand modelling methods are enhanced to simulate plausible week-long itineraries to better capture habitual behaviour. Methods from health impact modelling are incorporated into an agent-based transport simulation to capture exposures and impacts as agents carry out their itineraries. Micro-environmental spatial data are incorporated into a network database to capture street-level determinants of walking and cycling. Using this enhanced database, methods are developed for incorporating street-level environment sensitivities into mode choice and accessibility. The advancements introduced in this dissertation aim to be operationalisable and transferrable and are supported by open-source code. University of Cambridge 2025-02-10 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/389085 embargo 2026-09-04 https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/c522c5a4-d36d-4e17-9c66-c9f4f2733329/download 902d4b34acc41767e6417c2d8394bd2d https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/57a21eaa-18af-45d0-a982-e84f51ddd1fe/download 87eda9de84448d1f82354d60eee3eb5f http://purl.org/NET/rdflicense/allrightsreserved Accessibility Agent-based modelling Health impact modelling MATSim Mode choice Street-level environment Travel demand modelling