Urban Transformations and Health: Methods for TrUST-a Natural Experiment Evaluating the Impacts of a Mass Transit Cable Car in Bogotá, Colombia

• Main Authors: Olga L. Sarmiento (Author), Diana Higuera-Mendieta (Author), Maria A. Wilches-Mogollon (Author), Luis A. Guzman (Author), Daniel A. Rodríguez (Author), Ricardo Morales (Author), Daniela Méndez (Author), Claudia Bedoya (Author), Mario Linares-Vásquez (Author), Maria Isabel Arévalo (Author), Eliana Martínez-Herrera (Author), Felipe Montes (Author), Jose D. Meisel (Author), Andrés F. Useche (Author), Elizabeth García (Author), Camilo A. Triana (Author), Andrés L. Medaglia (Author), Philipp Hessel (Author), Julian Arellana (Author), Carlos Moncada (Author), Abby C. King (Author), Ana V. Diez Roux (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background: Cable cars provide urban mobility benefits for vulnerable populations. However, no evaluation has assessed cable cars' impact from a health perspective. TransMiCable in Bogotá, Colombia, provides a unique opportunity to (1) assess the effects of its implementation on the environmen...