Natural and built environmental exposures on children's active school travel: A Dutch global positioning system-based cross-sectional study

Helbich, Marco; Emmichoven, Maarten J. Zeylmans van; Dijst, Martin; Kwan, Mei‐Po; Pierik, Frank H.; Vries, S.I. de

doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.003

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“…Literature also indicates that stranger danger, traffic safety, and traffic speed influence mode choice (Pont et al, 2009;Carver et al, 2013). For example, not having to cross major roads and the availability of sidewalk and bike infrastructure are supportive for safe walking and cycling (Kerr et al, 2006;Helbich et al, 2016).…”

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“…Urban design is represented by means of the street layout (Giles-Corti et al, 2011;Koohsari et al, 2016). Here, the assumption is that dense street patterns characterized by high junction densities or a large number of well-connected streets support walking and cycling by increasing route choice and accessibility (Schlossberg, Greene, Phillips, Johnson, & Parker, 2006;Helbich et al, 2016). Although well-connected streets are associated with reduced automobile speeds, children need to cross streets more often, increasing the risk of traffic accidents (Sirard & Slater, 2008).…”

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“…Cul-de-sacs, in contrast, weaken network connectivity, impeding walkability but not necessarily cyclability (Ferrari & Green, 2013). Because these measures are limited to the horizontal dimension of urban form, Helbich et al (2016) extended urban morphology measures to the third dimension, where the urban topography is represented through laser scanning data (Helbich, Jochem, M€ ucke, & H€ ofle, 2013). As argued, building height differences might stimulate active commuting.…”

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“…The first reason is methodological, that is, the way urban form exposures are modeled. While exposures are primarily restricted to areas either around the home or the school location, or both (Larsen et al, 2009;Panter et al, 2010), en route exposures appear increasingly as significant determinants of travel behavior (Badland, Schofield, & Garrett, 2008;Duncan, Badland, & Mummery, 2009;B€ ocker, Dijst, Farber, & Helbich, 2015;Helbich et al, 2016). Straight-line distances (Steinbach et al, 2012;Owen et al, 2012) or shortest path distances (M€ uller, Tscharaktschiew, & Haase, 2008) between home and school are utilized to mimic the actual path.…”

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Children's school commuting in the Netherlands: Does it matter how urban form is incorporated in mode choice models?

Helbich

2016

International Journal of Sustainable Transportation

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Walking and cycling to school is environmentally sustainable and increases children's physical activity. Although it is known that the built environment influences children's travel behavior, there is scant knowledge of how urban form along children's commuting routes affects walking and cycling separately, or of how to incorporate urban form exposures in transport mode choice models. This research investigated (a) the associations between children's transport mode choice and urban form correlates en route, and (b) the consequences of different urban form operationalizations (i.e., individual variables, composite measure, and principal components [PCs]). Global Positioning System devices were used to track 623 trips to and from school made by Dutch children aged 6-11 years. Urban form exposures were derived with geographic information systems, and their relationships with mode choice were tested with mixed multinomial logit models in a cross-sectional research design. Differences between the number of associated urban form variables, their magnitudes, and their significance levels were found for both walking and cycling, independent of the operationalization. Urban form was most influential for walking, whereas distance-related effects were absorbed when modeled as PCs. The highest model fit was achieved through PCs; the composite measure resulted in the lowest fit. To maximize the effectiveness of planning and health interventions, walking and cycling must be targeted separately. Policymakers should avoid "one-fits-all policies," which are deemed to be inefficient. Because urban form affects model interpretation and fit, careful attention should be paid to how urban form is modeled, and sensitivity analyses should be performed.

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2016

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“…However, the advent of location-enabled sensing technologies has encouraged a broader preoccupation with collecting large data-sets of human activity patterns and location traces. Initially, this work was developed for studies in public health, particularly around issues of accessibility in food landscapes, activity and physical well-being [416], and the relationship between activity, place, and social networks. Work in geography, particularly in time geography, has also developed atop the same technologies, to examine issues of behavioral geography and social geography.…”

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2016

Computation

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Abstract:Streetscapes have presented a long-standing interest in many fields. Recently, there has been a resurgence of attention on streetscape issues, catalyzed in large part by computing. Because of computing, there is more understanding, vistas, data, and analysis of and on streetscape phenomena than ever before. This diversity of lenses trained on streetscapes permits us to address long-standing questions, such as how people use information while mobile, how interactions with people and things occur on streets, how we might safeguard crowds, how we can design services to assist pedestrians, and how we could better support special populations as they traverse cities. Amid each of these avenues of inquiry, computing is facilitating new ways of posing these questions, particularly by expanding the scope of what-if exploration that is possible. With assistance from computing, consideration of streetscapes now reaches across scales, from the neurological interactions that form among place cells in the brain up to informatics that afford real-time views of activity over whole urban spaces. For some streetscape phenomena, computing allows us to build realistic but synthetic facsimiles in computation, which can function as artificial laboratories for testing ideas. In this paper, I review the domain science for studying streetscapes from vantages in physics, urban studies, animation and the visual arts, psychology, biology, and behavioral geography. I also review the computational developments shaping streetscape science, with particular emphasis on modeling and simulation as informed by data acquisition and generation, data models, path-planning heuristics, artificial intelligence for navigation and way-finding, timing, synthetic vision, steering routines, kinematics, and geometrical treatment of collision detection and avoidance. I also discuss the implications that the advances in computing streetscapes might have on emerging developments in cyber-physical systems and new developments in urban computing and mobile computing.

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Research on the benefits of nature to people: How much overlap is there in citations and terms for ‘nature’ across disciplines?

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Research on the diverse benefits of nature to people is characterised by a broad range of disciplines involved, encompassing a variety of approaches, methods and terminologies. While a diversity of approaches is valuable, it can lead to difficulties in integrating and sharing findings, and could form a barrier to effective knowledge exchange, hindering the development and applications of research outputs. As a starting point for this scoping review, we chose four broad research areas (medicine, psychology, education and environment), selected to represent disparate approaches to research on the benefits of nature to people, within and across which to explore overlap in citations and terms used to describe nature. We conducted expert consultation and a snowball‐based approach to source publications, resulting in a sample of 210 papers spanning multiple disciplines within each of our four research areas. For each paper, we recorded the discipline of the journal in which it was published (publishing discipline), the discipline of its first author (first‐author discipline), the number of times journals of each discipline were cited in their bibliographies (cited discipline) and the term(s) used in the paper's title or abstract to describe the aspect of nature being explored (nature term). The cited disciplines were significantly different between publishing and first‐author disciplines, with papers from psychology, education and public health citing distinct communities of papers. However, disciplines generally cite a wide range of other disciplines, with articles in medical journals being particularly broadly cited. Nature terms were significantly different between publishing and first‐author disciplines, with some degree of consistency within disciplines (e.g. education papers consistently used a narrow range of nature terms, such as ‘outdoor learning’). However, there was a notably high range of nature terms used within psychology and public health papers, indicating that research from these disciplines may be particularly prone to being overlooked by search strings. The wide range of disciplines cited is encouraging, since this indicates that diverse research areas are generally aware of each other's work. However, to avoid unnecessary expansion of nature terms and support searchability, we propose four key terms for nature: (‘outdoor learning’ OR ‘outdoor education’), (‘nature’ OR ‘natural’), (‘green space’ OR ‘greenspace’) and (‘biodiversity’ or ‘trees’), which could be used across disciplines. We particularly propose that at least one of these be included in every paper, and all four should be included in review search strings. This is likely to result in a better understanding of the valuable, disparate contributions made by different disciplines to this expanding and important topic. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Natural and built environmental exposures on children's active school travel: A Dutch global positioning system-based cross-sectional study

Cited by 104 publications

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Children's school commuting in the Netherlands: Does it matter how urban form is incorporated in mode choice models?

Children's school commuting in the Netherlands: Does it matter how urban form is incorporated in mode choice models?

Computational Streetscapes

Research on the benefits of nature to people: How much overlap is there in citations and terms for ‘nature’ across disciplines?

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