Changes in Physical Activity and Travel Behaviors in Residents of a Mixed-Use Development

Transit use and walking as potential mediators of the association between accessibility to services and amenities and social participation among urban-dwelling older adults: Insights from the VoisiNuAge study

“…Although we investigated frequency of transit and walking, our models did not estimate duration and distance of travels. Many studies reported that different facets of the built environment are related to purpose, frequency, duration, or distances of transit or walking behaviors (e.g., Antipova et al, 2011;Duncan et al, 2010;Millward et al, 2013;Mumford et al, 2011). Nevertheless, it is striking that, regardless of participants' use of SACSP near their home, the mere presence of SACSP was significantly associated with social participation and this association was significantly mediated by transit use (regardless of the purpose, duration, or distance travelled).…”

Moving to an active lifestyle? A systematic review of the effects of residential relocation on walking, physical activity and travel behaviour

“…Fifth, as researchers cannot influence the relocation process, studies involving residential relocation may encounter practical challenges. For example, some participants may have moved prior to the pre-move data collection leading to a smaller sample size than envisaged and a loss of power,39 or due to unforeseen circumstances, pre-move data had to be collected retrospectively rather than prospectively as initially planned 37. Such unexpected and uncontrollable events challenge the researchers to react promptly and pragmatically with the minimal compromise of research quality.…”

“…Specifically, exclusion criterion 3 was chosen because individuals and their environments may not be comparable pre-immigration and post-immigration. Exclusion criterion 5 applies to relocation studies where the environment was vaguely defined or not measured (eg, moving to a ‘New Urbanist-inspired’ development,36 or a mixed-use development37) and therefore one cannot determine how built environment attributes changed after relocation.…”

Assessing Active Living Potential: Case Study of Jacksonville, Florida

“…Third, entropy scores may not be correctly calculated in terms of the denominator, which is count of land uses [57]. Although there are the arguments of calculating the land use diversity, a considerable study concluded that land use diversity has a positive association with physical activity [4,[13][14][15][16][17].…”