Association between psychosocial factors and active commuting to school in Brazilian adolescents

Oliveira, Bruno Nunes de; Minatto, Giseli; Costa, Bruno Gonçalves Galdino da; Lopes, Marcus Vinícius Veber; Silva, Kelly Samara da

doi:10.1016/j.jth.2020.100964

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“…Also, Camargo [ 12 ] only found a positive relationship between parental support and AST in boys, while peer support was positively related to AST in both boys and girls. Long et al [ 53 ] only found a positive relation between parental support and AST but not between peer support and AST, while Nunes de Oliveira et al [ 71 ] observed the opposite.…”

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Children’s active school transportation: an international scoping review of psychosocial factors

Savolainen,

Lindqvist,

Mikaelsson

et al. 2024

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Background Over the last decades, the prevalence of AST has decreased significantly. Barriers to active school transport (AST) have been extensively examined in the literature, while psychosocial factors that facilitate AST have received less attention. To our best knowledge, there are currently no reviews on this subject. Therefore, the objective of this review was to scope the literature and identify published research about psychosocial factors related to AST. Methods Systematic searches conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, TRID, Scopus, and ERIC resulted in a total of 1933 publications, and 77 of them were considered eligible for this review. Results The results of the included articles were categorised into four psychosocial factors: confidence in ability, attitudes, social support, and social norms, which were all generally positively related to AST, with a few exceptions. Conclusion The findings of this review indicate that these psychosocial factors may be important to consider when developing interventions and highlight that both children and parents should be involved in the process. This knowledge can serve as a valuable guide for developing interventions to promote AST. However, the evidence base supporting these psychosocial factors requires further investigation to fully understand how and when to incorporate them to maximise AST efficacy.

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Children’s active school transportation: an international scoping review of psychosocial factors

Savolainen,

Lindqvist,

Mikaelsson

et al. 2024

Syst Rev

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“…Pollution affects both commuters and residents. Many studies explore the relationship between commuting and health (Ma et al, 2020;Nunes de Oliveira et al, 2020;Sattler et al, 2020;Xiao et al, 2020).…”

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Estimating the impact of parking on car ownership and commute mode choices

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Researchers in commuting studies predominantly focus on movements. However, every trip starts and terminates in a place. For drivers, commuting is a journey between parking locations. They start their journey from home parking, park near work, and eventually return to home parking. Cars spend most of the day parked, with associated externalities. Drivers waste time and fuel cruising for parking in city centres and waste other drivers’ time and fuel by slowing traffic. More fuel consumption implies more carbon emissions and local air pollution. Providing off-street home parking increases house prices and reduces house affordability. Nonetheless, parking is a small part of the transportation literature and further research is needed to support a comprehensive understanding of parking and its impacts on travel behavior. This thesis is centreed around three questions; “How does the quantity of home parking affect car ownership and commute mode?”, “How do home parking type and quantity affect car ownership?”, “How does walking time from parking location to work impact parking type choice?”. Each question is answered in a separate chapter using a discrete choice model and a sample of commuters surveyed in the New Zealand Household Travel Survey (NZHTS) in the Greater Wellington Region (GWR), New Zealand. We find that home parking quantity strongly and positively affects car ownership and proclivity for driving. Residential parking is the most important factor in encouraging carless households to acquire a car. High home parking supply motivates households to drive more often. More car trips from suburbs means higher demand for parking downtown and highlights the relationship between home parking and work parking. More garage spaces at home noticeably motivates households to have multiple cars. The number of driveway spaces positively influences owning more than two cars. An inverse relationship exists between on-street parking demand and car ownership. For work parking, we find that walking time from public off-street parking to work significantly discourages commuters from choosing public off-street parking. Walking time from an on-street parking to work is also a significant disincentive for choosing On-street parking. The cost of on-street parking is important, followed by the number of on-street parking spaces. Elasticities show that the motivation of drivers to change parking type is close to their willingness to choose non-driving modes, if any parking features change. This similar willingness indicates a potential for achieving lower car use through parking restriction and improving non-driving modes. This research contributes to the home parking literature by considering residential location as a choice that is interrelated with car ownership and mode choice. We study commuters who could live and work anywhere in a region (GWR) with a diverse range of socioeconomic characteristics, parking features, and traffic conditions, in order to give results that are more realistic and comprehensive. We mitigate the endogeneity between car ownership and home parking using novel instrumental variables for home parking. Our measure for on-street parking carefully considers parking competition and quantity. Commute length is measured as commute time to better represent commuters’ perception of commute length. For work parking, we consider mode choices and parking alternatives simultaneously, and use novel demand-based measures for parking features. We expect the findings of this research will contribute to a better understanding of how parking arrangements in cities can affect commuting patterns, and how parking policies can impact urban design, land use and transport outcomes.

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Association between psychosocial factors and active commuting to school in Brazilian adolescents

Cited by 2 publications

References 51 publications

Children’s active school transportation: an international scoping review of psychosocial factors

Children’s active school transportation: an international scoping review of psychosocial factors

Estimating the impact of parking on car ownership and commute mode choices

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