The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the right math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
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Dutch Cycling: Quantifying the Health and Related Economic
Dr.s Fishman, Schepers, & Kamphuis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504332/#!po=2.77778
"Compared with the capital investments by all levels of Dutch government in road and parking infrastructure for cycling of almost €0.5 billion per year over the last decades,12 the annual benefits of €19 billion are much higher than the annual costs. "
The Netherlands is well known for their high bicycle use. We used the Health Economic Assessment Tool and life table calculations to quantify the population-level health benefits from Dutch cycling levels. Cycling prevents about 6500 deaths each year, ...
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Thanks a lot for the source!
"As a result of the mortality reduction of all age groups together, about 6500 deaths per year were prevented as a result of cycling in the Netherlands. With a value of a statistical life of €2.8 million per prevented death, the total economic health benefits of cycling were estimated at €19 billion per year."
I'm not competely satisfied.
Wouldn't it be more precise to argue with the loss of Healthy Life Years?
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These 19 Billion € are based on a "life's worth" but what has that to do with costs in the health system?
@proscience @BrentToderian @modacitylife the € 0.6 billion investment and the €19 billion benefits are both annual.
Here's the study
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4504332/#__ffn_sectitle
The Netherlands is well known for their high bicycle use. We used the Health Economic Assessment Tool and life table calculations to quantify the population-level health benefits from Dutch cycling levels. Cycling prevents about 6500 deaths each year, ...
Yes and Dutch public transport is all that public transport should be:
affordable, reliable and serving the community not the shareholders.
@ScottSoCal @BrentToderian @modacitylife Yep, the key to understanding the U.S. system is that one person's "waste" is another person's profit. Well, a company's profit. The system is built around rent extraction, so why do something cheaply and efficiently when you can do it in a convoluted, expensive and wasteful way, i.e. an opportunity for corporations to profit?
From this perspective, the big disadvantage of #bikes and #publictransit is that they're too efficient and inexpensive.
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Would love to live in a country that invested this much in cycle infrastructure.
It’s not just the benefits over driving some people don’t drive. We recently ruled out moving house because there were no safe routes for my kids to cycle to school from the new location.
Also what’s going on in the last photo?
To get more buy-in, for the US, it probably makes a lot of sense to present things in predominantly economic terms. Unfortunately.
Seems like there's more acceptance of one can use the "here's how gov't is gonna save money" angle.
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