We investigate whether the design of the built environment encourages walking above and beyond individuals' attitudes toward walking. With data from a regional travel survey, we use …
CM Hoehner, LK Brennan… - American journal of …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
The growing emphasis on promoting environmental change as a means to increase physical activity has motivated conversation and collaboration between researchers and …
Background Purposeful or utilitarian walking may allow a time-efficient, low cost accumulation of physical activity. While constructing a built environment that supports …
Contemporary transport systems lack resilience. They are prone to congestion, vulnerable to multiple threats, constitute a great financial burden and are environmentally unsustainable …
It has become well recognized that nonmotorized transportation is beneficial to a community's health as well as its transportation system performance. In view of the limited …
This study confirmed the general belief of urban planners that mixed land use promotes walking in Seoul, a metropolis in East Asia, by analyzing the effect of mixed land use on the …
Background Previous studies have provided mixed evidence with regards to associations between food store access and dietary outcomes. This study examines the most commonly …
A Helling, DS Sawicki - Housing Policy Debate, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Predominantly black, upper‐income census tracts in the 10‐county Atlanta region have lower accessibility to certain personal consumption opportunities than comparable white …
P Næss - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2011 - JSTOR
Based on a study in the Copenhagen Metropolitan Area, this paper compares the influences of macro-level and micro-level urban form characteristics on the respondents' traveling …