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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"active transportation"”.
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Active transportation prediction using Theory of Planned Behavior among college students
… Physical inactivity poses serious health risks. Active transportation (AT) is commuting under one’s own power. Examples of AT include bicycling and walking. This mode of transportation may be a helpful tool promoting physical activity. The purpose of this study was to describe predictors of …
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Step By Step: Suburban Active Transportation Planning in Spring Hill, Tennessee
… segregated land uses, and sprawling development. Active Transportation (AT), defined as non-motorized travel modes such as walking and cycling, has the potential to provide suburban residents with alternative mobility options. In 2015, Spring Hill, Tennessee, a city with suburban form and no dense …
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Assessing Barriers and Motivators for Use of a Trail for Active Transportation in a College Town
… amount of the US population is not physically active, contributing to rates of heart disease and obesity. One strategy to increase physical activity is to use more active transportation, defined as walking or biking for transit. Besides increasing physical activity levels, active transportation …
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Places to walk, places to walk to : adapting the built environment to promote health
… role the built environment plays in promoting active transportation (AT) in order to reduce obesity rates. Through original identification and analysis methods, this thesis argues that current AT planning fails to recognize high-priority (high obesity prevalence) areas for AT improvements. It …
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The Composition of a Child's Physical Activity and Their Cardio-Metabolic Health
… used to estimate average minutes/day spent in active transportation, outdoor active play, organized sport, and curriculum-based physical activity at school. Percent body fat, resting heart rate, and systolic blood pressure were measured using automated equipment. Isotemporal substitution …
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Neighborhood plans as tools for public health improvement : steps to a healthier Austin and neighborhood planning in Austin, Texas
… reduce neighborhood-level barriers to physically active transportation and recreation. Emerging evidence suggests a link between the built environment and physical activity, but any causal relationship remains uncertain. This report begins with a literature review to discover neighborhood traits …
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Post-secondary Students' Travel Behavior through the Lens of Urban and Rural Contexts
… activity choices, departure time decisions, and active transportation behaviors are shaped by contextual, demographic, and policy factors. Two studies utilize the StudentMoveTO dataset, a detailed activity-travel diary survey from the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), to model …
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Is Micromobility Here to Stay? Insights from Canadian Communities Prioritizing Climate Action
… into long-range municipal plans, often within active transportation strategies. The three goals of the Sustainable Micromobility Framework are well represented, but additional themes emerged that suggest other priorities in municipal policy. These findings highlight both the relevance of the …
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A Sustainability Assessment of the Harte Trail
… leisure needs while supplying benefits of active transportation, environmental education, and biodiversity preservation. These benefits exist because the trail provides infrastructures and areas where people can conduct recreation, appreciate nature, strengthen community bonds, learn, and …
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Assessing School Neighborhood Walkability: A Targeted Approach to Safe Routes to School Programming
… obesity by encouraging children’s regular active transportation use. This thesis supports the widespread implementation of SRTS and has developed the "Shelling Model" to objectively identify schools for programming. Accordingly, the "Shelling Model" aims to objectively identify physical and …
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Data Visualization and Analytics to Support Accessible Pedestrian Planning and Decision-Making
Transportation planners cannot begin to address inaccessible pedestrian networks if they are not aware of the type and location of the network deficiencies. Unfortunately, planning tools that visualize these networks are not widely available and are only applicable to select jurisdictions. …
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Reducing Private Vehicle Dependency in Metro Vancouver: Overcoming Car Culture Through Mobilities Justice
… transit expansion; insufficient support for active transportation and new mobility such as e-bikes; and a lack of mobility justice in transportation and land use planning. These factors were found to be rooted in systemic structures and policies that influence mobility investments in Metro …
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Body Mass Index and Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Washington State
… built environments including opportunities for active transportation and access to supermarkets or fast food outlets, as well as disordered nutrition3–6. This study contributes to our knowledge by examining the relationship between Messer's neighborhood deprivation index7 and census-tract level …
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Impacts of the Built Environment on Cycling Mode Share and Subsequent Greenhouse Gas Reductions
… in Canada increased by42%, while national road transportation emissions increased by 17.69% and accounted for approximately 20.73% of total Canadian greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (Environment Canada, 2022). In May of 2017 - with a primary goal of encouraging individuals to adopt cycling as …
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Oceano Community Health Plan
… for physical activity, quality housing, transportation options, and safe schools—is an integral part of making our communities healthier. This research and accompanying Healthy Community Plans will serve as a way for the County to begin looking in-depth at the ways the built environment …
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Trends on two wheels: Bike commuting in a campus core
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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To and fro : digital data-driven analyses of pedestrian mobility in urban spaces
… is of concern for public health officials, transportation engineers, and urban planners. To what degree, if any, do these various environmental characteristics influence how much and for how long people walk? To answer these questions, this thesis analyzes large-scale spatiotemporal …
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Cycling in the Crescent City: An exploration of the spatial variation in bicycle commuting in New Orleans
… literature on variables found to influence transportation bicycling is conducted, and a survey is disseminated to residents across the city to determine some of the motivations for and obstacles to transportation bicycling locally. Additionally, case studies are compiled pertaining to two …
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Preferences for walking-to-school environments: Exploring landscape designs that are most welcomed by children and parents
… with trees along the street and for the attractiveness of the setting, as compared to adults. The contributions of these findings are discussed in relation to a variety of efforts to create walkable communities.
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