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Co-ordinating efforts undertaken by health and transport practitioners will help strengthen the process of encouraging behaviour change away from sedentary and car-dependent lifestyles. Both fields have unique and innovative methods which they employ to encourage behaviour change, which if applied in unison could lead to more effective and lasting results. Health and transport are two of the most widely discussed and emotive topics in the media today. The obesity epidemic currently facing the UK regularly makes headlines as do issues such as road safety, congestion, air quality and climate change. These are not new problems and the links between transport and health are widely known amongst practitioners in both fields; however there is a distinct lack of co-ordinated effort to address what is a clear mutual objective, to increase people’s levels of physical activity. From a transport perspective this means encouraging more people to walk and cycle rather than travelling by other means, whereas from a health perspective regula