The role of active transport as part of daily routines, for example, has excited considerable interest for its potential for reducing pathologies associated with sedentarism, overweight and obesity, in journals and at international meetings (Lyn and Sallis, 2018). These have stimulated interest and built closer ties between researchers and practitioners. But links between transport and health go far beyond active transport, raising issues of governance, social equity, urban planning procedures and principles in "normal" and crisis conditions, as previous special issues of this journal have documented, particularly