Cycling or walking? Determinants of mode choice in the Netherlands

Ton, Danique; Duives, Dorine C.; Cats, Oded; Hoogendoorn-Lanser, Sascha; Hoogendoorn, Serge P.

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2018.08.023

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“…For example, the fact that 66% and 71% of Danish adolescents actively commute to and from school, respectively, and that WT and CT account for 64% of AT [61] should be encouraging for other countries with similar demographic settings, including those from Central Europe. Given the number of determinants that affect the choice of WT or CT, these two types of AT should be perceived as distinguished alternatives [5].…”

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“…Active travel (AT) is an important part of adolescents' everyday physical activity (PA). Nonetheless, we have been observing a long-term decreasing trend in AT throughout adolescence in many socioeconomically developed countries [1][2][3][4], but not in all of them [5]. The health, economic, social and behavioral benefits of AT are adequately supported by the research [6][7][8].…”

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confidence: 98%

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Active Travel of Czech and Polish Adolescents in Relation to Their Well-Being: Support for Physical Activity and Health

Frömel

Groffik

Mitáš

et al. 2020

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The adoption of active travel (AT) habits in adolescence, supported by positive emotions, increases the chances of a lifelong positive attitude towards AT. The aim of this study was to assess the associations between active travel and well-being (WB), and to estimate the share of AT in weekly physical activity (PA) and its contribution to meeting the weekly PA recommendations in adolescents. The International Physical Activity Questionnaire-long form and the WHO-5 questionnaire were used to assess the level of AT, weekly PA and well-being of 2805 adolescents from 36 Czech and 39 Polish schools. A higher rate of AT is only significantly associated with higher well-being in girls. However, meeting AT recommendations in combination with higher WB increased the likelihood of meeting the weekly PA recommendations in both girls and boys. AT accounts for 22.5% of weekly PA of Czech (Polish 24.2%) boys. Concerning girls, it accounts for 24.9% of weekly PA in the Czech Republic and 24.5% in Poland. Meeting AT recommendations should be part of comprehensive school-based PA programs. State, school and municipal policies in the Central European region should pay more attention to the improvement of WB and the built environment for AT in secondary school adolescents.

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Section: The Association Between Active Travel and Well-beingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Active Travel of Czech and Polish Adolescents in Relation to Their Well-Being: Support for Physical Activity and Health

Frömel

Groffik

Mitáš

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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“…The comparatively small sample size also prevented more detailed analysis, for example to examine whether car parking moderated the association between the other characteristics and mode change. A study with a larger sample size might also be better placed to explore differences between walking and cycling, which are likely to differ in their determinants ( Pikora et al, 2003 , Ton et al, 2019 ). All study participants worked in Cambridge, which may limit the generalizability of both the population and the context.…”

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The social and physical workplace environment and commute mode: A natural experimental study

Patterson

Ogilvie

Panter

2020

Preventive Medicine Reports

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“…Research has shown that local authorities are paying increasing attention to cycling in urban transport, recognising that it offers many advantages for cities and their citizens. Due to the range of benefits it offers, cycling policy is a very effective element in promoting active mobility (Ton et al 2018), including cycling, which responds to the need to improve the quality of the environment and reduce the impact of social exclusion in cities (Arsenio et al 2016). Active mobility brings benefits not only for urban transport but also for the health of residents (Rojas-Rueda et al 2011;Mueller et al 2015;Ricci 2015;Johansson et al 2017;Mueller et al 2018;Otero et al 2018).…”

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Cycling policy in strategic documents of Polish cities

Kwiatkowski

Szymańska

2020

Environ Dev Sustain

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Cycling transport fits well into the principles of sustainable development of cities and regions. Cycling policy is more and more often reflected in various strategic documents which are to set out measures to increase the share of cycling in urban transport. The paper evaluates the manner of implementing the assumptions of sustainable transport through the analysis of strategic documents from Polish cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants. The study was carried out in four stages. Firstly, the authors reviewed literature and reference material, i.e. strategic documents at European and national level. In the second stage, they analysed the strategies of urban development, indicating areas of urban development in which issues related to cycling were placed. The third phase focused on the additional (substantive) strategic documents related to transport and cycling—urban cycling policies. The task here was to assess their completeness and conformity with the guidelines of the European Commission concerning the creation of cycling policy. In the last stage of the study, the authors assessed whether measures for the development of cycling infrastructure were implemented in the studied cities: changes to the cycling infrastructure of the said cities were analysed by determining the dynamics of changes in the length of cycle paths and the availability of bicycle-sharing systems. The study showed the cohesion of cycling policies of Polish cities with higher-level (European and national) documents. It was also confirmed that in the majority of analysed documents the passages concerning cycling are prepared in the context of urban transport.

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Cycling or walking? Determinants of mode choice in the Netherlands

Cited by 123 publications

References 25 publications

Active Travel of Czech and Polish Adolescents in Relation to Their Well-Being: Support for Physical Activity and Health

Active Travel of Czech and Polish Adolescents in Relation to Their Well-Being: Support for Physical Activity and Health

The social and physical workplace environment and commute mode: A natural experimental study

Cycling policy in strategic documents of Polish cities

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