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Residential neighborhoods around individuals’ home locations were a primary focus in previous studies to examine the associations between active travels and environmental factors and, for the last decade, researchers have begun using global positioning system (GPS) trajectories of individuals to consider their daily paths for actual exposure estimation to various environments. Empirical findings in the existing studies, however, showed inconsistent outcomes of the associations. In addition, more advanced analytical approaches have not yet been explored, regardless of a large amount of GPS trajectories in hand, which have great potential to find more valuable and various outcomes. Thus, this study seeks to provide comprehensive data-driven approaches to further investigate the associations between travel modes and environmental contexts using the geographic information system (GIS) and machine learning techniques. An automatic travel mode classification algorithm is developed using GPS and accelerometer data to advance travel mode detection in health and transportation research. When it comes to exposure estimation to various environments, this study focuses on buffer analysis, which has been widely used in previous studies, and examines how distance, as one of the buffer characteristics, can affect findings of the associations between travel modes and environmental factors to give insights into accurate estimation of immediate surroundings along the daily trajectories of individuals. In addition, a novel framework is proposed and adopted to perform mapping of travel modes and explore complex contextual influences on travel modes at different levels of scales using machine learning models. 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Residential neighborhoods around individuals’ home locations were a primary focus in previous studies to examine the associations between active travels and environmental factors and, for the last decade, researchers have begun using global positioning system (GPS) trajectories of individuals to consider their daily paths for actual exposure estimation to various environments. Empirical findings in the existing studies, however, showed inconsistent outcomes of the associations. In addition, more advanced analytical approaches have not yet been explored, regardless of a large amount of GPS trajectories in hand, which have great potential to find more valuable and various outcomes. Thus, this study seeks to provide comprehensive data-driven approaches to further investigate the associations between travel modes and environmental contexts using the geographic information system (GIS) and machine learning techniques. An automatic travel mode classification algorithm is developed using GPS and accelerometer data to advance travel mode detection in health and transportation research. When it comes to exposure estimation to various environments, this study focuses on buffer analysis, which has been widely used in previous studies, and examines how distance, as one of the buffer characteristics, can affect findings of the associations between travel modes and environmental factors to give insights into accurate estimation of immediate surroundings along the daily trajectories of individuals. In addition, a novel framework is proposed and adopted to perform mapping of travel modes and explore complex contextual influences on travel modes at different levels of scales using machine learning models. 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