The Contribution of Mobile Apps to the Improvement of Walking/Cycling Behavior Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic

Paydar, Mohammad Mahdi; Fard, Asal Kamani

doi:10.3390/su131910580

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“…The presence of other people is one of the features (found in this research) that contribute to reducing the sense of insecurity [75]. The presence of people helps to lessen the feeling of insecurity by acting as natural monitoring along the pathways [76]. Greater tranquility is also related to the lower presence of others as well.…”

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Design Characteristics, Visual Qualities, and Walking Behavior in an Urban Park Setting

Paydar,

Kamani Fard,

Gárate Navarrete

2023

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The design characteristics of urban parks’ pathways are important in facilitating leisure walking and maintaining the minimum rate of physical activity, thus improving public health. This study examined and explored the relationships between design characteristics as well as certain visual qualities of Cautin Park, the biggest urban park in the Araucanian Region of Chile, and the tendency for walking as well as walking behavior. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods was used to examine the objectives. Several design attributes were found to be related to the tendency for walking and the walking behavior in this urban park, including greater pathway width, more vegetation, tranquility along the pathways, and more comfortable pathway environments for pets. Additionally, these correlations were assessed based on gender and age, and it was found that adolescents showed the greatest difference from other groups. For instance, adolescents walk significantly more along pathways with more connectivity to activity zones. Among the visual qualities, only legibility shows a significant correlation with the number of all types of pedestrians, as well as subgroups of adolescents, adult men, and adult women. These results were reviewed, and their implications were discussed. Urban planners and designers could apply these findings when designing future urban parks in this context.

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Design Characteristics, Visual Qualities, and Walking Behavior in an Urban Park Setting

Paydar,

Kamani Fard,

Gárate Navarrete

2023

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“…However, the most commonly considered indicators are bicycle infrastructure, greenery along bicycle paths, slopes, vehicular traffic flow/volume, street lights, bicycle path connectivity, and traffic speed. These indicators are related to the sense of comfort and safety along the bicycle pathways, which, when offered, results in a preference of people to choose bicycles over other modes of transport [75]. Past research shows that other indicators, along with cycle infrastructure, such as pavement conditions, road markings, traffic control devices, and crosswalks, play a significant role in getting people to ride bikes [7,76].…”

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Bicycle Infrastructure Design Principles in Urban Bikeability Indices: A Systematic Review

Ahmed,

Pirdavani,

Wets

et al. 2024

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Bicycling is a sustainable form of micromobility and offers numerous health and environmental benefits. Scientific studies investigating bikeability have grown substantially, especially over the past decade. This paper presents a systematic literature review of the developed urban bikeability indices (BIs). The paper provides insight into the scientific literature on bikeability as a tool to measure bicycle environment friendliness; more importantly, the paper seeks to know if the BIs consider bicycle infrastructure design principles. Data extraction included identifying the geographical location, essential indicators, sample size and distribution, data source, the unit of analysis, measurement scale, methods used to weigh indicators, and identification of studies using bicycle design principles in BIs. The database search yielded 1649 research articles using different keywords and combinations, while 15 studies satisfied the inclusion criteria. The studies were found to be conducted in various geographical locations. The unit of analysis for developing the index varied across studies, from street segments or bicycle lanes to zones within the city or even the entire city. The most commonly utilized method in developing urban BIs was a scoring and weighting system to weigh the indicators. The weighting methods include an equal weight system, survey-based and literature review-based methods, expert surveys, the analytic hierarchy process, and a weighted linear combination model. The essential criterion is bicycle infrastructure, such as bike lanes, routes, and bicycle paths as 14 studies considered it for the construction of the BIs. The review findings suggest a lack of consideration of all five bicycle infrastructure design principles, as only three studies considered them all, while others only included a subset. Safety and comfort are the most commonly considered principles, while coherence is the least considered principles in the BIs. It is crucial to consider all five bicycle infrastructure design principles to create a bicycle-friendly environment and attract more people to this sustainable mode of transportation.

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“…According to ecological models, a person's walking behavior is influenced b complex relationship between environmental (physical/social) and individual charac istics (Krogstad et al 2015;Rind et al 2015;Van Cauwenberg et al 2014). In this reg previous studies have demonstrated the impact of several personal as well as cio-demographic, social, and built environment factors in improvement of walking havior (Copperman and Bhat 2007;Inoue et al 2010;Mesters et al 2014;Paydar Kamani Fard 2016;Paydar et al 2017;Paydar and Kamani Fard 2021a;Van Cauwenb et al 2012;Yun 2019). However, the previous studies on walking behavior mostly cused on the contribution of built environment to walking behavior, whereas the ro socio-demographic as well as social factors in improvement of walking behavior has b less studied.…”

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The Contribution of Socio-Demographic Factors to Walking Behavior Considering Destination Types; Case Study: Temuco, Chile

Paydar

Fard

2021

Social Sciences

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The improvement of walking contributes to maintain the minimum rate of physical activity and therefore the residents’ public health. This is while the amount of walking in daily transport of inhabitants has significantly decreased during the last decades in Temuco, Chile. In addition, the impact of socio-demographic as well as social factors on the improvement of walking behavior has been paid less attention in previous studies. This study aims to examine the contribution of socio-demographic factors and the active family environment to walking behavior as well as walking level based on three types of destinations in Temuco. The results of “Encuesta Origin Destino” (EOD) in Temuco were used to examine the objectives. It was found that a high percentage of people who walk in Temuco belong to low-income families. Moreover, most of the people who walk, do not have a driver’s license nor private cars in their household. Certain socio-demographic factors such as age, gender, driver’s license, private cars, and access to TV were found to have associations with overall walking behavior as well as walking level depending on three different destination types. Furthermore, the correlation was found between walking behavior and active family environment. These findings were discussed and their implications were addressed as well.

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The Contribution of Mobile Apps to the Improvement of Walking/Cycling Behavior Considering the Impacts of COVID-19 Pandemic

Cited by 12 publications

References 127 publications

Design Characteristics, Visual Qualities, and Walking Behavior in an Urban Park Setting

Design Characteristics, Visual Qualities, and Walking Behavior in an Urban Park Setting

Bicycle Infrastructure Design Principles in Urban Bikeability Indices: A Systematic Review

The Contribution of Socio-Demographic Factors to Walking Behavior Considering Destination Types; Case Study: Temuco, Chile

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