Guidance, support and implementation of funding priority „Healthy Travelling - Active Mobility & Healthy Streets2024 – 2028”

Healthy travelling means being actively mobile. The health benefits of active mobility are primarily generated through exercise, whether walking, cycling or scootering. At the same time, pedestrians and cyclists are particularly sensitive to their (traffic) environment, the desirable characteristics of which are reflected in the indicators of the Healthy Streets approach. These include street safety, green space, quality of life through seating and play areas, shade, good air quality, low noise levels and optimally designed infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists. In its 2024 - 2028 framework work programme, the „Fonds Gesundes Österreich“ has defined the funding priority ‘Healthy Travelling - Active Mobility & Healthy Streets’ in the living environment ‘Municipalities, Cities and Regions’. On the one hand, this is about promoting active mobility in the municipal setting, and on the other hand, the ©Healthy Streets concept is to be pursued or established in the applicant municipalities for the first time in Austria. With quality-assured processes and suitable measures, both approaches can make an essential contribution not only to health promotion, but also to climate protection. The AMOHS project aims to support the funding call, supervise the funded projects and evaluate the processes and measures implemented in the projects. The scientific focus is on evaluation. The question concentrates on the effectiveness of measures to promote active mobility and health promotion with regard to a sustainable change in health and mobility behaviour, as well as on the feasibility and impact of the Healthy Streets approach. In the sense of Third Mission, the project results and lessons learnt will be disseminated not only in the scientific community but also in the municipalities themselves.