The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) jointly developed a new tool known as the Transportation and Health Tool.  The tool highlights the connection between transportation and public health and can help improve transportation decision making. The tool provides information and resources to agencies to identify strategies to improve public health through transportation planning and policy.  The Transportation and Health Tool enables transportation decision makers and the public to compare their region or state with others on key health and transportation indicators.

The tool provides easy access to data that practitioners can use to examine the health impacts of transportation systems.  The Transportation and Health Tool provides data on 14 transportation and public health indicators for each state, metropolitan statistical area (MSA), and urbanized area (UZA).  The indicators measure how the transportation environment affects health with respect to safety, active transportation, air quality, and connectivity to destinations.  

Explore the Transportation and Health Tool:

• Select a state, MSA, or UZA from the map to see how it performs on each indicato
• Learn about the 14 indicators and the process used to select them;
• Discover evidence-based strategies that practitioners can use to address health through transportation; and
• Read more about the scoring methodology or download a spreadsheet with the complete dataset.