A significant amount of travel is undertaken to find food. This paper examines challenges in
measuring access to food using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), important in studies …

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to describe how active transportation can help meet health
and greenhouse gas emissions goals, and the ability of urban form strategies to impact both …

In this paper, we examine the effect of changes in population density—urban sprawl—
between 1970 and 2000 on BMI and obesity of residents in metropolitan areas in the US We …

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and
accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the problem of providing efficient and low …

Although planning decisions have profound public-health implications, planning-health
linkages have received relatively little attention in recent decades. Moreover, on the few …

The automobile contributes to costly trends like pollution, oil dependence, congestion, and
obesity. This article investigates determinants of individual car travel through a comparison …

This paper presents a study of whether transit-oriented development (TOD) helps reduce
peak-hour congestion, a topic of ongoing public debate. Applying conventional four-step …

Background Studies involving the built environment have typically relied on US Census data
to measure residential density. However, census geographic units are often unsuited to …

This thesis analyzes an on-board transit survey conducted by the Atlanta Regional
Commission in order to determine how far urban density, mixed land-uses, and street …

The objective of this study was to identify spatial variability in exposure to outdoor traffic-
related air pollution with specific emphasis on comparing exposure estimates for working …