Active Transport, Physical Activity, and Body Weight in Adults

Wanner, Miriam; Götschi, Thomas; Martin‐Diener, Eva; Kahlmeier, Sonja; Martin, Brian W.

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2012.01.030

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“…Does more walking reduce obesity? This is not as clear according to those same systematic reviews of research in both adults and children (Durand et al 2011;Lee et al 2008;Faulkner et al 2009;Giles-Corti et al 2009;Van Stralen et al 2009;McCormack and Sheill 2011;Lubans et al 2011;Van Cauwenberg et al 2011;Bauman et al 2012;Kerr et al 2012;Wanner et al 2012;Sugiyama 2012). This could be true because people who walk more, and who are more physically active, may also eat more.…”

Section: Exercise-inducingmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is a walkable place? The walkability debate in urban design

2015

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What exactly is meant by the term "walkability"? In professional, research, and public debates the term is used to refer to several quite different kinds of phenomena. Some discussions focus on environmental features or means of making walkable environments, including areas being traversable, compact, physically-enticing, and safe. Others deal with outcomes potentially fostered by such environments, such as making places lively, enhancing sustainable transportation options, and inducing exercise. Finally some use the term walkability as a proxy for better design whether composed of multiple, measurable dimensions or providing a holistic solution to urban problems. This review both problematizes the idea of walkability and proposes a conceptual framework distinguishing these definitions. This matters for urban design, because what is considered a walkable place varies substantially between definitions leading to substantially different designs. By mapping the range of definitions, this review highlights potential conflicts been forms of walkability.

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Section: Exercise-inducingmentioning

confidence: 99%

What is a walkable place? The walkability debate in urban design

2015

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“…The specific variables measured for workplace neighborhoods are discussed in the results section but they generally covered population and housing density, connectivity, and land use mix measures. Similar variables had been found to be associated with walking for transportation in prior studies (5,6,7,19). The GIS-based variables were measured at 200, 400, 800, and 1600 meters around work places using both straight line (circular) and street network buffers.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 83%

“…A number of reviews of this work have been published recently (5,6,7). These reviews typically point to some associations between travel walking and destinations or land use mix and more modest associations with such factors as sidewalks and connectivity.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Workplace Neighborhoods, Walking, Physical Activity, Weight Status, and Perceived Health

Forsyth

Oakes

2014

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Recent interest has focused on how the residential neighborhood built environment affects walking and other physical activity. The workplace neighborhood has been examined far less. This paper explores the neighborhood around the workplace in relation to walking, physical activity, body mass index, and perceived health for those who: (a) worked away from home (N=446) and (b) were retired or unemployed (N=207). Study participants from the MinneapolisSt. Paul metropolitan area were recruited from environmentally diverse residential neighborhoods in 2004. They wore an accelerometer, kept a travel diary, and answered a survey. Their workplace neighborhood environments were measured using a geographic information system. In bivariate assessments, many features of the workplace neighborhood environment were significantly, but modestly, correlated with travel walking including density, street pattern, and land use (commercial, office, and residential). Fewer environmental features were correlated with total physical activity, a result confirmed in multivariate analyses. While several workplace neighborhood environmental variables were correlated with total walking, relevant to the field of transportation, the pattern of association with total physical activity was not as consistent or strong. Since many spend considerable time at work, more research is clearly needed on this topic.

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“…[12,13]). Systematic reviews on the impacts of physically active travel modes to the travellers' health conditions can be seen at Mueller et al [9] and Wanner et al [14], for example. Most of previous studies agree to each other that higher participations in physically active travel activities, such as walking and cycling, correlate with a better physical health condition in general.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%