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Norbert Mundorf, Colleen A. Redding and Andrea L. Paiva
Promoting physical activity and sustainable transportation is essential in the face of rising health care costs, obesity rates, and other public health threats resulting from lack of physical activity. Targeted communications can encourage distinct popul...
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Qigang Zhu, Yifan Liu, Ming Liu, Shuaishuai Zhang, Guangyang Chen and Hao Meng
For large and medium-sized cities, the planning and development of urban road networks may not keep pace with the growth of urban vehicles, resulting in traffic congestion on urban roads during peak hours. Take Jinan, a mid-sized city in China?s Shandong...
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Chun Sing Lai, Youwei Jia, Zhekang Dong, Dongxiao Wang, Yingshan Tao, Qi Hong Lai, Richard T. K. Wong, Ahmed F. Zobaa, Ruiheng Wu and Loi Lei Lai
Smart cities employ technology and data to increase efficiencies, economic development, sustainability, and life quality for citizens in urban areas. Inevitably, clean technologies promote smart cities development including for energy, transportation and...
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Li-Ting Chen and Ya-Wen Hsu
Using bike share could increase physical activity and improve health. This study used the social-ecological model to identify predictors of frequent bike share trips for different purposes. Participants residing in the U.S. were recruited via Amazon Mech...
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Zeenat Kotval-K, Linda Keilman and Weijing Wang
This study examines the impact of the provision of specialized transportation services for older adults on the attainment of preventive healthcare services in selected cities across Michigan. The main hypothesis is that transportation services are critic...
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Norbert Mundorf, Colleen A. Redding and Songtao Bao
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Joo Hyun Sung, Jiho Lee, Kyoung Sook Jeong, Soogab Lee, Changmyung Lee, Min-Woo Jo and Chang Sun Sim
Environmental noise is known to cause noise annoyance. Since noise annoyance is a subjective indicator, other mediators?such as noise sensitivity?may influence its perception. However, few studies have thus far been conducted on noise annoyance in South ...
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Kenji Ono, Jun Tatsumi, Takeyoshi Nakao
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During the east Japan great earthquake and tsunami disaster on March 11, 2011, long distance ferry engaging in the coastal linking of east Japan area demonstrated their high seaworthiness against the tsunami waves. For the initial response operations for...
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Stephanie K. Young, Taha B. Tabish, Nathaniel J. Pollock and T. Kue Young
Residents in the Canadian Arctic regularly travel in remote, backcountry areas. This can pose risks for injuries and death, and create challenges for emergency responders and health systems. We aimed to describe the extent and characteristics of media-re...
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Satu-Maaria Sarjala, Anna Broberg, Ari Hynynen
As demonstrated in many earlier studies, the qualities of physical environment have great impacts on physical activity (PA) behavior. However, studying individual built-environment variables often produces contradictory effects between studies. To overco...
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Steven R. Gehrke, Kelly J. Clifton
Urban planning and public-health research has long been interested in the connection between land-use mix and travel. Interest from urban planners stems from the potential of transportation efficiency gains achieved by an increased land-use mix and subse...
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Ilir Bejleri, Ruth L. Steiner, Sulhee Yoon, Jeffery Harman, Donna F. Neff
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Transportation networks and related urban form settlements are frequently recognized as barriers to primary care access. This study explores the role of urban form in constraining accessibility to healthcare as affected by transportation network characte...
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Calvin P Tribby, Harvey J Miller, Barbara B Brown, Carol M Werner, Ken R Smith
There is increasing emphasis on active transportation, such as walking, in transportation planning as a sustainable form of mobility and in public health as a means of achieving recommended physical activity and better health outcomes. A research focus i...
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Abdul Rais Abdul Latiff and Saidatulakmal Mohd
As physical abilities and health decline with age, older adults tend to lose their driving abilities, which affects their mobility. As mobility is important to older adults? wellbeing, there is a need to explore alternative modes of transportation to inc...
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Amin Rahimi, Seyed Mojtaba Hejazi, Mostafa Zandieh and Mirpouya Mirmozaffari
In this paper, the problem of finding an assignment of ?n? surgeries to be presented in one of ?m? identical operating rooms (ORs) or machines as the surgical case scheduling problem (SCSP) is proposed. Since ORs are among NP-hard optimization problems, ...
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Vishnupriya Jonnalagadda, Ji Yun Lee, Jie Zhao and Seyed Hooman Ghasemi
The nation?s transportation systems are complex and are some of the highest valued and largest public assets in the United States. As a result of repeated natural hazards and their significant impact on transportation functionality and the socioeconomic ...
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Kirsten DePrekel, El Hachemi Bouali and Thomas Oommen
Transportation infrastructure is critical for the advancement of society. Bridges are vital for an efficient transportation network. Bridges across the world undergo variable deformation/displacement due to the Earth?s dynamic processes. This displacemen...
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Sustainable transportation is an essential part of a sustainable city; however, modern transportation systems with internal-combustion engines emits unacceptably high level of air-pollutants and noise. It is recognized widely that road-traffic noise has ...
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Taeho Park, Minho Kim, Chaemi Jang, Taeryang Choung, Kyung-A Sim, Dongju Seo and Seo Il Chang
Sustainable transportation is an essential part of a sustainable city; however, modern transportation systems with internal-combustion engines emits unacceptably high level of air-pollutants and noise. It is recognized widely that road-traffic noise has ...
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Yuanyuan Zhang and Yuming Zhang
Car travel accounts for the largest share of transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions in the United States (U.S.), leading to serious air pollution and negative health effects; approximately 76.3% of car trips are single-occupant. To reduce the ne...
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