A new tool from the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Centers for Disease Control allows comparisons between state or metropolitan area on transportation and public health indicators.
"The U.S. Department of Transportation joined with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to launch a new online tool that provides profiles of how transportation may be affecting human health in each state and region," according to an article in Metro magazine.
"The Transportation and Health Tool provides a single site for state and local transportation decision-makers and health officials to understand how their transportation system may affect health. For the first time, this site compiles data on how all states and communities are performing on a range of health-related transportation indicators."
My first pass through the tool revealed a work in progress: data for urbanized areas and metropolitan statistical areas were not available in the more reader-friendly format of the site's interactive map. Finer-grained data, however, is available in an Excel spreadsheet for download.
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