Welcome to the twelfth issue of Sustrans' Active Travel e-bulletin.  Active Travel works with policy-makers and practitioners to promote walking and cycling as health-enhancing physical activity.

>>> Active Travel News The latest newsletter looks at the role of transport in delivering the obesity strategy, with examples of how Sustrans is already putting this into practice.

>>> Creating the environment for active travel – update sheet This new sheet offers a round-up of recent papers related to the built environment’s impact on health, including NICE’s guidelines on creating environments that encourage active travel and the Foresight review on tackling obesity.

>>> Leeds ULTIMAT project learns from French bike hire scheme The new ULTIMAT project at Leeds University aims to set up a bike hire scheme to encourage and facilitate active travel among students. The project organisers recently visited Nantes University to learn about their Velocampus bike hire scheme. For more information about ULTIMAT click here

>>> Wales: Creating the environment for active travel This new bilingual information sheet assembles evidence demonstrating that the built environment should be designed, created and managed to encourage healthy lifestyles for the people that live in or use it.

>>> Walking to cycling to work reduces risk of CHD in women Recent research has found that moderate or high levels of occupational or leisure time physical activity are associated with a reduced risk of CHD. Daily walking or cycling to work was associated with a lower risk of CHD in women. The Evidence! - Research on the benefits of physically active travel.

>>> Contact Us If you require further information on the work of Active Travel or copies of publications please email activetravel@sustrans.org.uk or call 0117 915 0328.

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Active Travel is supported by the British Heart Foundation and Department of Health. Active Travel Scotland is supported by the Scottish Executive.

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Our vision is a world in which people can choose to travel in ways that benefit their health and the environment. Every day we are working on practical, innovative ways of dealing with the transport challenges that affect us all.