Do Not Forget About Public Transportation: Analysis of the Association of Active Transportation to School Among Washington, DC Area Children With Parental Perceived Built Environment Measures

Abstract

ATS-public transportation is common among Washington, DC area youth, and parental perceptions of BE can significantly predict ATS.

Upstream Policy Changes to Improve Population Health and Health Equity: A Priority Agenda

“…Collectively, these challenges provide a clearer understanding of why people living in communities are more likely to be obese and diagnosed with high blood pressure and be exposed to gun and police violence. 34 Accordingly, the physical design of communities can exacerbate race‐based health disparities, 35 and the constraints of these structural components further expose communities of color to gun and police violence through mechanisms of hypervisibility and racial profiling.…”

Investigating the Use of Active Transportation Modes Among University Employees Through an Advanced Decision Tree Algorithm

“…This wide range of benefits of AT for societies motivates policymakers and urban planners to identify factors and attributes that contribute to a higher level of AT modes' usage [12]. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify the influencing factors on the usage of AT modes by general and special group populations such as children, school children, women, and seniors [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. However, some special groups, such as employees, attracted less attention from academia in relation to the use of AT modes.…”