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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Active travel"”.
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Young people’s active travel in Asia
… studies have demonstrated a clear link between active travel and increased physical activity levels in young people. Active travel also has the potential to reduce air pollution by reducing motorised transport use. The promotion of active travel to school to enhance young people's physical …
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Evaluating and understanding how interventions work to encourage shifts towards active travel
Replacing motorised transport with active travel, such as walking or cycling for transport, has multiple environmental and health co-benefits. However, with the large variety of intervention forms that may be implemented to shift population levels of active travel, such as modifying the built …
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Transitions in Motion: Accelerating Active Travel Infrastructure in London through Grassroots Groups and Activist Researchers
Active transport plans and infrastructure transition plays a key role in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions and various health issues faced in London, yet has not occurred at a speed required for mitigation or even achieving stated targets and goals. While socio-technical transition research …
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Investigating the association between the built environment and active travel of young adults using location based technology
… physical activity in daily life by promoting active travel as ways to commute and recreate. A growing body of evidence indicates that certain environmental characteristics promote active lifestyles in general or promote specific kinds of physical activity such as walking or biking. However, …
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Shifting towards healthier transport? From systematic review to primary research
… population level of physical activity through active travel. However, little is known about the effects of interventions which might achieve this by changing urban design, transport infrastructure or other putative determinants of population travel behaviour. I conducted a systematic review of …
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Time in the “Great Recession”: the impact of the Great recession and being unemployed on time spent in healthy behaviors and with family members.
… began. Being unemployed is related to exercise, active travel, health-related self-care, and eating breakfast, whereas state economic conditions and historical time period are not as consistently related to healthy behaviors. Poor state economic conditions were related to increased likelihood of …
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Understanding Residential Relocation and Travel Behaviour: Mechanisms, Inequalities, and Implications
Active travel, such as walking or cycling, is an effective way to incorporate physical activity into daily routines, which is beneficial for health. Research has extensively examined how features of the built environment facilitate or hinder active travel, though findings – particularly on the …
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Mediating mobility at the school gate: interpreting London's School Street schemes
… motivation for School Streets being to increase active travel to school, evidence for their effectiveness in changing travel behaviour lags their widespread adoption. Responding to this gap, the research has two primary aims. First, to understand the contribution of School Streets to children’s …
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Integration of GIS and machine learning techniques to investigate the impact of environmental contexts on travel modes
… body of research has adopted the definition of active travel modes. Active travel modes have made a great contribution to overall physical activity and, therefore, it is important to understand the active travels associated with environmental facilitators or barriers in physical activity and …
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Phenomenal Landscapes: exploring children’s neighbourhood mobility and their experiences within three east London neighbourhoods
… public places and spaces within these both for travel and play. It takes a child-centred approach to the research, working with a small group of children (n=17) from three schools in Hackney, east London to better understand their neighbourhood mobility and exploring how this impacts on their …
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Impact of Road Proximity and other Determinants of Air Quality along Multi-Use Trails in the National Capital Region
Active travel can provide short-term and long-term health benefits and has the ability to reduce the negative externalities of vehicular traffic, for example, congestion, land consumption, and air pollution. However, exposure to air pollution is higher for pedestrians and cyclists than other road …
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A Population Perspective on Physical Activity and Health
… particular types (e.g. walking and cycling for travel), have become a priority for governments seeking to improve health and constrain rising demand on health services. Despite this many uncertainties persist. The aim of this thesis is to address two particular areas of uncertainty: a) the …
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Modelling the health impacts of urban transport in Africa
… through modelling. I started by exploring travel and physical activity behaviours and their data sources in selected African cities to elicit the context and address some challenges related to model data inputs from surveys. Secondly, I explored health integration in urban transport …
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Advancing transport modelling for health applications
… the health impacts of policies targeting travel behaviour. For example, health impact assessments estimate the health effects of behavioural shifts, usually with a focus on active travel. Existing methods are typically spatiotemporally aggregate and cannot offer insight into the mechanisms …
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An exploration of the determinants and health impacts of active commuting
… studies of the determinants and impact of active commuting are limited however, since they typically use cross-sectional, observational study designs or focus on small scale behavioural interventions. This thesis explored how the impact of larger scale population-level changes in the design …
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Gamification for a healthier lifestyle – user adherence
… participants of all age groups to be physically active compared to other SDT components. The results show that certain age group participants like certain features; for instance, the Daily Streak was popular among adults, while Active Travel was mostly used by teenagers and children in the Habit …
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Examining the Factors Influencing Bikeshare Use in the UK: Implications for Scheme Planning
… sustainable transport through encouraging active travel, helping to reduce carbon emissions and enhance accessibility. However, schemes have faced planning challenges, leading to inefficient resource allocation and systematic under-use, resulting in low profitability and even closures. To …
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Applying Web-Based Technologies to Better Understand Access to Services using Public Transport
… utility in real-time scenario modelling or interactive decision-making. Furthermore, these tools often fail to integrate open-source solutions, which could enhance accessibility and reduce costs for end users. Addressing these gaps, this thesis develops a browser-based application that combines …
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