The built environment determinants of activity participation and walking near the workplace

Gehrke, Steven R.; Welch, Timothy F

doi:10.1007/s11116-016-9687-5

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“…As a result, the effect of the residential built environment and socioeconomic, mobility, and trip-level factors on mode substitution were assessed for home-based ride-hailing activity. Built environment variables describing the density of residents and employees, diversity of land uses, and design of the street network were tested ( 13 ), along with a zonal binary metric noting the presence of a rapid transit station in this multinomial logistic regression model of mode substitution. For this third model, which applied a specification process similar to the development of the prior two models, the reference case was the substitution of a ride-hailing service for vehicle-based travel compared with the alternatives of replacing public transit use, active travel, or no travel.…”

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Substitution of Ride-Hailing Services for More Sustainable Travel Options in the Greater Boston Region

Gehrke¹,

Felix²,

Reardon³

2019

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The recent and dramatic growth in ride-hailing activity is a bellwether of a coming transportation revolution driven by on-demand services. The impacts of ride-hailing services on the transportation system have been immediate and major. Yet, public agencies are only beginning to understand their magnitude because the private ride-hailing industry has provided limited amounts of meaningful data. Consequently, public agencies responsible for managing congestion and providing transit services are unable to clearly determine who uses ride-hailing services and how their adoption influences established travel modes, or forecast the potential growth of this emergent mode in the future. To address these pressing questions, an intercept survey of ride-hailing passengers was conducted in the Greater Boston region in fall 2017. Ten ride-hailing drivers, recruited and trained by the authors, asked passengers to complete surveys during their ride-hailing trip. The tablet-based survey instrument recorded nearly 1,000 passenger responses with regard to socioeconomic background, mobility options, and trip context. These responses, which enabled a robust description of ride-hailing passengers for the region, were used to analyze how new on-demand mobility services such as Uber and Lyft may be substituting travel by other modes. The study substantiates previous findings and advances knowledge of who is utilizing this new mobility option and what factors influence its adoption over public and active transportation modes. The results are intended to inform public policies ensuring that shared mobility technologies will complement existing multimodal landscapes and not worsen existing environmental concerns or equity gaps related to individual mobility.

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Substitution of Ride-Hailing Services for More Sustainable Travel Options in the Greater Boston Region

Gehrke¹,

Felix²,

Reardon³

2019

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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“…Strategies aimed at increasing PA at the same time need to target multiple levels and settings of the ecologic framework, including the worksite (Hipp et al, 2015). Walkable environments, characterized by density, connectivity, and land use diversity (Forsyth, 2015) can increase the amount of active commuting (Frank, Bradley, Kavage, Chapman, & Lawton, 2008), as well as short active trips taken throughout the working day (Forsyth & Oakes, 2014; Gehrke & Welch, 2017). At the same time, working in a natural and aesthetically pleasing environment can foster going out for a walk in the middle of the day, or encourage walking meetings.…”

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Associations Between Worksite Walkability, Greenness, and Physical Activity Around Work

Marquet

Floyd

James

et al. 2018

Environment and Behavior

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This article explores the role of the work environment in determining physical activity gained within and around the workplace. With most adults spending more than half of their waking day at work, the workplace is a promising venue for promoting physical activity. We used a sample of 147 employed women—median age = 53 years old; 42% meeting Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) physical activity recommendations—wearing a GPS device and accelerometer on the hip for 7 days to assess location and physical activity at minute-level epochs. We analyzed the association between geographic information systems (GIS) measures of walkability and greenness around the workplace and the amount of physical activity gained while in the work neighborhood. Our results showed that working in high walkable environments was associated with higher levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity while at work, and with higher moderate to vigorous physical activity gained within the work neighborhood. Increasing walkability levels around workplaces can contribute to increasing physical activity of employees.

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“…In the context, the transport dynamics refers to traffic flow, and the built environment is the typical part of the road network structure. Some studies have analyzed the relationship between the built environment and traffic systems, such as traffic behaviors [16][17][18][19][20], the association between network structure and road safety [13,21,22], and the correlation between traffic congestion and different attributes of urban land use [23][24][25]. Though they found strong empirical evidence to show the correlation, limited research has investigated the impact of the built environment on traffic flow or complicated relationships between them at the level of the network.…”

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Analyzing urban traffic demand distribution and the correlation between traffic flow and the built environment based on detector data and POIs

Wang

Ma³

et al. 2018

Eur. Transp. Res. Rev.

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Purpose: This paper aims to determine the urban traffic flow spatiotemporal characteristics and correlation with the built environment using SCATS (Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System) and POIs (Point of Interests) data of Shenyang, China. Methods: A standard analysis framework based on these data is proposed in the paper. The study analyzes the traffic volume spatiotemporal distributions and built environment influence factors determined by the geographical detector. An improved gravity model using simple structural parameters (lanes number and road length) is proposed to estimate the traffic flows of day and peak hour scales for specific flow ranges. Results: The results show that the peak hours of different intersections and roads are heterogeneous and reveal trip time flexibility. The correlation between peak hour flows and day flows is significant in the multidimensional analysis. Based on the investigation of lanes, more interesting conclusions are found. In this case, when the numbers of lanes of intersections and roads are more than 14 and 4 respectively, the lane resources are wasted to a great extent. There is also a certain correlation between these factors. Proposed gravity model establishes the connection between structure and function of urban roads. Conclusions: Flexible work time and places will be effective methods to reduce traffic congestion. The day flows could be estimated via a traffic survey on peak hour flows, especially in developing cities. The traffic flow mainly concentrates in a relatively small part of city roads. The maximum service traffic volumes exhibit segmentation, we should reconsider the maximum optimal lanes number of intersections and roads under better performance and utilization rate of the network. The effect of lanes number on the service traffic volumes is found to be more significant compared with the other factors. Our conclusions will be helpful for policy-makers and sustainable urban planning.

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The built environment determinants of activity participation and walking near the workplace

Cited by 22 publications

References 36 publications

Substitution of Ride-Hailing Services for More Sustainable Travel Options in the Greater Boston Region

Substitution of Ride-Hailing Services for More Sustainable Travel Options in the Greater Boston Region

Associations Between Worksite Walkability, Greenness, and Physical Activity Around Work

Analyzing urban traffic demand distribution and the correlation between traffic flow and the built environment based on detector data and POIs

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