Walkability and its relationships with health, sustainability, and livability: elements of physical environment and evaluation frameworks

A Baobeid, M Koç, SG Al-Ghamdi - Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Urban sprawl and increasing population density in urban centers create the challenge to
finding ways of sustainable transportation solutions that preserve the convenience of …

[HTML][HTML] Built environment associates of active school travel in New Zealand children and youth: A systematic meta-analysis using individual participant data

E Ikeda, T Stewart, N Garrett, V Egli, S Mandic… - Journal of Transport & …, 2018 - Elsevier
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the associations between active travel
to school and the neighbourhood built environment in children and youth by systematically …

A GIS-based method for evaluating the walkability of a pedestrian environment and prioritised investments

G D'Orso, M Migliore - Journal of transport geography, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the large investments made in the construction and modernisation of railway
infrastructure, poor quality pedestrian routes may discourage users from using public …

Associations between the streetscape built environment and walking to school among primary schoolchildren in Beijing, China

X Wang, Y Liu, C Zhu, Y Yao, M Helbich - Journal of transport geography, 2022 - Elsevier
Active travel to school is considered one of the channels for improving schoolchildren's daily
physical activity level. The built environment is increasingly recognized as a factor likely to …

Associations of children's active school travel with perceptions of the physical environment and characteristics of the social environment: a systematic review

E Ikeda, E Hinckson, K Witten, M Smith - Health & Place, 2018 - Elsevier
This systematic review summarised and evaluated the evidence for associations between
school travel modes in children aged 5–13 years and perceived physical environments as …

[HTML][HTML] Developing a 15-minute city: Evaluating urban quality using configurational analysis. The case study of Terni and Matera, Italy

B Murgante, R Valluzzi, A Annunziata - Applied Geography, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract the pandemic and the post-pandemic scenarios pose the question of a radical
transformation of cities based on criteria of diversity, density, and proximity to foster …

[HTML][HTML] Traditional and novel walkable built environment metrics and social capital

MJ Koohsari, T Nakaya, GR McCormack… - Landscape and Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
A rapidly growing body of literature has explored associations between urban design
attributes, which are conducive to walking, and social capital. The current study aimed to …

Cross-continental comparison of the association between the physical environment and active transportation in children: a systematic review

S D'Haese, G Vanwolleghem, E Hinckson… - International journal of …, 2015 - Springer
Background The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the relationship
between a wide range of physical environmental characteristics and different contexts of …

Associations between streetscape characteristics at Chinese adolescents' activity places and active travel patterns on weekdays and weekends

X Wang, Y Liu, Y Yao, S Zhou, Q Zhu, M Liu… - Journal of Transport & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Adolescents' daily active travel (AT) has positive health effects. However,
previous studies had paid little attention on the differences between the streetscape …

Walking, cycling and the urban form: A Heckman selection model of active travel mode and distance by young adolescents

S Kaplan, TAS Nielsen, CG Prato - Transportation research part D: transport …, 2016 - Elsevier
Physical inactivity of children and adolescents is a major public health challenge of the
modern era but, when adequately promoted and nurtured, active travel offers immediate …