Medical benefit of public transit

-> "Use of public transit is associated with more walking, by about 8.3 extra minutes per day. This is not enough walking to halt the spread of obesity, but it could substantially reduce it. The present value of medical expenditure savings per person could be $5500, while the value of reduced disability could be even greater."

-- Ryan D. Edwards, "Public transit, obesity, and medical costs: Assessing the magnitudes;" Preventive Medicine 46 (2008), 14-21
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