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Hsu-Sheng Hsieh, Min-Ta Chuang
Pág. 1099 - 1127
The relationship between the built environment and walking behavior has been explored extensively. However, little research has been done to either differentiate between walking for transport and walking as activity or that applies urban design tools to ...
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Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Ester Cerin, Anna Timperio, Jo Salmon, Benedicte Deforche and Jenny Veitch
Previous studies have reported mixed findings on the relationship between park proximity and recreational physical activity (PA), which could be explained by park quality and the surrounding neighborhood environment. We examined whether park quality and ...
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Mo Fan, Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali, Aldrin Abdullah and Mohammad Javad Maghsoodi Tilaki
Contemporary urban development places a critical emphasis on pedestrian environments, especially in historic cities like George Town, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Malaysia. Although survey questionnaires effectively captured public perception...
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Mohammad Paydar, Asal Kamani Fard and Soheil Sabri
Although an increase in walking is recommended to improve physical activity and public health, especially among older adults, the frequency of outdoor pedestrian activities, including walking, should be reduced when there is increased air pollution. Ther...
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Yifu Ge, Zhongyu He and Kai Shang
Exploring the relationship between leisure walking and the built environment will provide an improvement in human health and well-being. It is, therefore, necessary to explore the most relevant scale for leisure walking and how the association between th...
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Ji-Yong Jung and Jung-Ja Kim
A rollator, one of the most widely used among walking assistance devices, can assist the elderly with stable walking in their daily lives. In this study, we investigated how the structural characteristics of two types of rollators affect the upper and lo...
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Gaofeng Xu, Le Zhong, Fei Wu, Yin Zhang and Zhenwei Zhang
The impact of built environment features on tourists? walking behaviors has received growing attention. Although many researchers have observed the effects of micro-scale factors, the impact of culture-related factors on walking behaviors has been freque...
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Mikko Kärmeniemi, Tiina Lankila, Emilia Rönkkö, Kari Nykänen, Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen, Raija Korpelainen
Pág. 691 - 708
Land use and transportation policies have been recognized globally as major sources of physical inactivity, but there has been a gap between research and policy implementation. Our objective for this research was to produce an integrated view of communit...
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Jixiang Liu, Jiangping Zhou, Longzhu Xiao
Pág. 1129 - 1148
As a sustainable mode of travel, walking for transportation has multiple environmental, social, and health-related benefits. In existing studies, however, such walking has rarely been differentiated between commuting and non-commuting trips. Using multil...
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Yunkyung Choi, Subhrajit Guhathakurta
Pág. 343?365
While transit-oriented developments (TODs) are generally believed to promote the use of sustainable travel modes, the degree to which various components of TODs influence travel behavior is still debatable. This paper revisits Chatman?s (2013) question: ...
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?.V. Strashnov,D.V. Omelchenko
Pág. 66 - 72
This paper considers the task of real time dynamics simulation for anthropomorphic walking robots in virtual environment systems. To solve this task, an approach is proposed in which the motion of articulated rigid bodies system, representing an anthropo...
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Mohammad Lutfur Rahman, Antoni Moore, Melody Smith, John Lieswyn and Sandra Mandic
Active transport to or from school presents an opportunity for adolescents to engage in daily physical activity. Multiple factors influence whether adolescents actively travel to/from school. Creating safe walking and cycling routes to school is a promis...
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Suzanne Mavoa, Serryn Eagleson, Hannah M Badland, Lucy Gunn, Claire Boulange, Joshua Stewart, Billie Giles-Corti
Walkability indices can guide planning and policy for more sustainable and liveble cities. Land-use mix is an important component of walkability that can be measured in a number of ways. Many land-use mix measures require fine-scaled land-use data that a...
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Minna Aittasalo, Johanna Tiilikainen, Kari Tokola, Timo Seimelä, Satu-Maaria Sarjala, Pasi Metsäpuro, Ari Hynynen, Jaana Suni, Harri Sievänen, Henri Vähä-Ypyä, Kalle Vaismaa, Olli Vakkala, Charlie Foster, Sylvia Titze and Tommi Vasankari
Active commuting to work (ACW) is beneficial to traffic, environment and population health. More evidence is needed on effective ways to promote ACW. This paper describes the protocol and baseline findings of a cluster-randomized controlled study, which ...
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Katherine Brookfield, Catharine Ward Thompson and Iain Scott
Walking is the most common form of physical activity amongst older adults. Older adults? walking behaviors have been linked to objective and perceived neighborhood and street-level environmental attributes, such as pavement quality and mixed land uses. T...
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Razieh Zandieh, Javier Martinez, Johannes Flacke, Phil Jones and Martin Van Maarseveen
Older adults living in high-deprivation areas walk less than those living in low-deprivation areas. Previous research has shown that older adults? outdoor walking levels are related to the neighbourhood built environment. This study examines inequalities...
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Mohamed Anwer Zayed
Pág. 113 - 129
Walking has always been one of the important modes of transport all over the world. During the second half of the twentieth century, motorized modes, especially private cars, emerged. A situation of overdependence on motorized transport evolved. Recently...
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Bahareh Motamed, Azadeh Bitaraf
Pág. 76 - 99
High air pollution, car dependency, and increasing statistics of obesity and cardiovascular diseases are growing issues in the mega city of Tehran, the capital city of Iran. Therefore, investigating the quality of walkability as an effective solution for...
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Christopher D Muhs, Kelly J Clifton
Does walkability equate with bikeability? Through a comprehensive review of studies of the built environment and bicycling, including mode choice, route choice, safety, and urban design literature, this paper addresses this question. Previous work has ra...
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Paulus Teguh Aditjandra, Xinyu (Jason) Cao, Corinne Mulley
The promotion of local sustainable travel is ever prominent within local transport plans, although it is still not well understood how the change to more sustainable and less carbon-based travel can be achieved. The objective of this study is to gain a b...
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