Increased bicycle commuting in Stockholm would save at least 80 lives a year by reducing air pollution and increased physical activity.
It concluded in an interim report in a research presented at the Transport Forum in Linköping today, and Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet aware of.
– It is possible to prevent some 40 premature deaths each year exclusively through the lower exposure to pollutants population in Greater subjected in this scenario. In addition there are an equal number of lives saved, conservatively estimated, through increased physical activity. There are large numbers in these contexts, says Peter Schantz, a professor at GIH, the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Researchers have wondered what would happen if all who have realistic opportunities to take the bike and reach the job at maximum 30 minutes really did it. After weighing up a number of important factors, the conclusion was that today there are about 110,000 locals who today have the ability but do not use it.
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