How to obtain a healthy journey to school

Jensen, Søren Underlien

doi:10.1016/j.tra.2007.12.001

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“…This could be the evidence needed for authorities to replicate this school siting policies in other settings for ACS proliferation. Another example is a study from the Netherlands, were the average distance to an elementary school was smaller than 2.0 km, which showed that 79% of the trips to school were made by active (Dessing et al, 2014 (Cooper et al, 2010;Jensen, 2008). These may include: 1) cycling-friendly infrastructures like separate bike lanes, traffic calming measures, car free zones; 2) bike parking and end of the trip facilities such as showers, bicycle stations, bike lockers; and 3) legal interventions as speed limits (Pucher et al, 2010).…”

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Active commuting to school in Portuguese adolescents: Using PALMS to detect trips

Pizarro

Schipperijn²,

Andersen

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

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The declining levels of physical activity (PA) have led to active commuting to school (ACS) being seen as a key strategy to increase PA levels in school-aged children. In Portugal, no data exists on the patterns of this behavior, an essential step for developing evidence-based and effective interventions. The purpose of this study is to explore the travel to school behavior using an objective methodology. Methods: 155 adolescents (mean age 15.9±1.1 years) wore an accelerometer and a GPS for 7 consecutive days. Home and school addresses were geocoded to identify home-school trips. The web-based tool PALMS was used to combine GPS and accelerometer data, categorize Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity (MVPA) and classify trip mode of home-school trips into: walking, bicycling or vehicle. Results: 609 trips were identified as home-school trips. Walking was the most frequent trip mode (68.8%) whereas bicycling was less common (14.4%). Median home-school walking trip length was 0.9 km and 96.7% of the trips were under 2.0 km. Near 80% of the total walking trip time(to or from school) was in MVPA and contributed on average with 12(±5.6) minutes to daily recommendations. Differences were found whether the trip started at home or at school, walking school-home trips took longer and had more minutes in MVPA than home-school trips. Regression analyses showed increasing distance to be associated with lower odds of ACS in boys (OR: 0.32; 95% CI: 0.16-0.63) and girls (OR: 0.10; 95% CI: 0.04-0.25). Conclusion: Walking to school and back home can contribute with up to 40% of recommended daily MVPA, so increasing this behavior may be of particular relevance to increase PA levels. On the other hand, cycling is underused in home-school trips and strategies to promote the use of bicycle could also be of interest, especially in trips longer than 2.0 km.

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Active commuting to school in Portuguese adolescents: Using PALMS to detect trips

Pizarro

Schipperijn²,

Andersen

et al. 2016

Journal of Transport & Health

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“…E5 possıvel que a presença de crianças caminhando induza à ideia de que mais indivıduos estão expostos a maiores riscos, e que isso poderá resultar no aumento dos atropelamentos. No entanto, o aumento de viagens a pé não foi associado ao aumento desses acidentes quando as caracterıśticas da estrutura urbana e socioeconômi-cas foram incluıdas (Jensen, 2008).…”

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Prevalência de fatores associados à severidade dos acidentes em entorno de escolas

Torres¹,

Uriarte²,

Demore³

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RESUMOPromover a segurança viária nos entornos escolares é uma estratégia que contribui para que sejam construídas cidades seguras, saudáveis e sustentáveis. Este estudo é dedicado a identificar o conjunto de características físicas urbanas capazes de reduzir a severidade dos acidentes nesses entornos. A severidade foi analisada a partir das características da estrutura urbana, socioeconômicas, da instituição escolar e dos acidentes registrados (entre 2012 e 2014) no entorno de 905 escolas de Porto Alegre. Foram estimados modelos de escolha discreta ordenados e não ordenados, permitindo a comparação entre as abordagens. Entretanto, não foi identificada superioridade de uma abordagem metodológica sobre a outra. O conjunto de estimativas indica que a severidade dos acidentes no entorno escolar é influenciada por caracterís-ticas da escola, do acidente, socioeconômicas e pela estrutura urbana, com destaque para influência negativa do número de interseções com quatro vias. ABSTRACTFostering road safety nearby schools is a strategy that contributes to build safe, healthy and sustainable cities. The aim of this study is to identify the set of urban physical characteristics that are able to reduce the severity of accidents in these surroundings. Build environment, socioeconomic data, characteristics of the educational institution and accident data (from 2012 to 2014) nearby 905 schools in Porto Alegre were used to analyze severity. Discrete choice models of ordered and unordered structures were estimated and compared. However, it was not possible to identify the superiority of one methodological approach over the other. The models have shown that the severity of accidents near schools is influenced by school, accidents, socioeconomic characteristics and the build environment, in special the negative influence of the quantity of four-way intersections.

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“…For children specifically, cycling stimulates their level of independent mobility, which is described as children's level of autonomy due to the increase of control and freedom when cycling or walking [8]. Despite these advantages, cars are still more often used as a transportation method to go to school [8,9]. Over the last decades, studies have even reported a decline in children's cycling, and a rise in car use as a means of school commuting [8,10].…”

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Cycling for a Sustainable Future. Stimulating Children to Cycle to School via a Synergetic Combination of Informational and Behavioral Interventions

2020

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This paper explores how communication interventions can be designed to motivate children to choose more sustainable commuting options (cycling) to go to school. One-hundred and eighty-six children (between 8 and 11 years old) from Flanders, Belgium, participated in an intervention study testing the effectiveness of using informative versus behavioral interventions and the moderating role of motivational messages. The study employed a between-subjects research design with 3 types of interventions (informational versus behavioral versus a combination of informational and behavioral interventions) and 2 types of motivation (autonomous versus controlled motivation). Findings revealed that the average change in the number of times the child indicated to commute by cycling was biggest after being exposed to a combination of informational and behavioral interventions. The type of motivation (autonomous versus controlled) did not have an impact on the average change in the number of times the child indicated to commute by cycling, nor moderated these effects. Additionally, including age and gender as covariates in the model did not alter the results. The study’s findings provide more insights in how sustainable commuting can be promoted among children. It shows the benefits of combining informational and behavioral interventions in public awareness programs (such as in schools).

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How to obtain a healthy journey to school

Cited by 25 publications

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Active commuting to school in Portuguese adolescents: Using PALMS to detect trips

Active commuting to school in Portuguese adolescents: Using PALMS to detect trips

Prevalência de fatores associados à severidade dos acidentes em entorno de escolas

Cycling for a Sustainable Future. Stimulating Children to Cycle to School via a Synergetic Combination of Informational and Behavioral Interventions

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