Walking toward Metro Stations: the Contribution of Distance, Attitudes, and Perceived Built Environment

Paydar, Mohammad Mahdi; Fard, Asal Kamani; Khaghani, Mohammad Mehdi

doi:10.3390/su122410291

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“…This study also showed that distance was the main barrier preventing utilitarian walking to routine destinations, confirming previous research in this field [15,27]. Distance is the key determinant of walking particularly for the elderly population due to the physical effort required [90].…”

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“…Walking to shops is also a very common travel purpose, and the presence of facilities such as grocery stores, supermarkets, restaurants, banks, and fitness centers, among others, has a great impact on inducing utilitarian walking [21][22][23][24][25]. Walking to public transport is a common determinant too, as the use of public transport generally involves walking to bus stops and train stations [26,27]. For that reason, public transport has been considered as active travel, because the distance travelled from the stop to the destination can make a significant contribution to daily physical activity and healthy lifestyles [28].…”

Section: Categories Of Walkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, participants in Seoul were more engaged in utilitarian walking (70%) than in Seattle (50%). Regarding income, people with higher incomes tend to be less available to use active modes [27,58], and there is evidence that physical inactivity is more common in countries of high income [56]. Other variables, such as the weather and the day of the week, also have a considerable influence on the decision to walk.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

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Walking is a mode of transport that offers many environmental and health benefits. Utilitarian walking refers to walking trips undertaken to fulfil routine purposes. The aim of this paper is to examine the extent to which walking is used as a transport mode for short urban trips in the city centers of Bologna and Porto and the barriers preventing utilitarian walking. Based on a questionnaire (n = 1117) administered in the two cities, results indicated that 21% of the individuals travel by foot, while 47% combine walking with other modes. This means that 68% of the daily trips to these city centers involve walking activity. From the overall trips, 84% were made to reach work and school/university. Statistical tests showed that utilitarian walkers were more likely to be females (p < 0.001) and undergraduates (p < 0.001). People from Bologna were more likely to engage in utilitarian walking than people from Porto (p < 0.001). Travel distance and time were the main barriers preventing people from engaging in utilitarian walking. The findings described in this paper provide a better understanding of utilitarian walking in the central areas of both cities, which can guide policies to promote healthier lifestyles and sustainable mobility.

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“…The main spatial criteria considered as input are as follows: distance from main streets, distance from highways, distance from the non-residential land use, number of patients in the hospitals and population density, and location of patients’ financial transaction within [0-500] and [500-1000] meters. The selected service area distances are based on experts’ opinions where the pedestrians travel on foot on an average of 500 m and the drivers travel within 1000 m to get a specific location on purpose ( Neysani Samany et al, 2013 , Paydar et al, 2020 , Omidipoor et al, 2021 ). The target is regarded as the location of patients in these regions.…”

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The most places at risk surrounding the COVID-19 treatment hospitals in an urban environment- case study: Tehran city

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Investigations on the spatial patterns of COVID-19 spreading indicate the possibility of the virus transmission by moving infected people in an urban area. Hospitals are the most susceptible locations due to the COVID-19 contaminations in metropolises. This paper aims to find the riskiest places surrounding the hospitals using an MLP-ANN. The main contribution is discovering the influence zone of COVID-19 treatment hospitals and the main spatial factors around them that increase the prevalence of COVID-19. The innovation of this paper is to find the most relevant spatial factors regarding the distance from central hospitals modeling the risk level of the study area. Therefore, eight hospitals with two service areas for each of them are computed with [0-500] and [500-1000] meters distance. Besides, five spatial factors have been considered, consist of the location of patients’ financial transactions, the distance of streets from hospitals, the distance of highways from hospitals, the distance of the non-residential land use from the hospitals, and the hospital patient number. The implementation results revealed a meaningful relation between the distance from the hospitals and patient density. The RMSE and R measures are 0.00734 and 0.94635 for [0-500 m] while these quantities are 0.054088 and 0.902725 for [500-1000 m] respectively. These values indicate the role of distance to central hospitals for COVID-19 treatment. Moreover, a sensitivity analysis demonstrated that the number of patients’ transactions and the distance of the non-residential land use from the hospitals are two dominant factors for virus propagation. The results help urban managers to begin preventative strategies to decrease the community incidence rate in high-risk places.

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“…Audit (SPACES, PEDS, or other types) and GIS have been used for the process of objective measurements of the built environments [31,111,112]. The perceived built environment has been measured through standard survey questionnaires such as "Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale" (NEWS) [31,93,113]. According to Smith [114], perceived measures of microscale built-environment features such as the aesthetic-related features contribute to predicting walking behavior more effectively.…”

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

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2021

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More than one hundred and fifty cities around the world have expanded their emergency cycling and walking infrastructures to increase their resilience in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the role of mobile apps is prominent in respect to developing a smart city during this pandemic, which raises the questions of how mobile apps contribute to the improvement of walking/cycling behavior and how such a relationship is influenced by the situation imposed by COVID-19. The role of mobile apps in the three relevant fields of physical activity, transport, and urban planning are reviewed. Next, the associations between walking/cycling behaviors and their contributing factors and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on these relationships are reviewed. Studies on physical activity have emphasized the role of motivational social factors in improving the function of mobile apps. In regard to transport, mobile apps have the potential to facilitate data collection in macroscale environments. In addition, mobile apps may facilitate people’s recognition of positive/negative environmental aspects, and this may in turn lead to greater pedestrian/cyclists’ awareness and better organization of their walking/cycling behavior. Moreover, based on a participatory approach, the classification of current mobile apps and certain suggestions on the development of future mobile apps are presented. Finally, complementary suggestions are provided for maintaining and improving the use of mobile apps to improve the level of walking/cycling.

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Walking toward Metro Stations: the Contribution of Distance, Attitudes, and Perceived Built Environment

Cited by 26 publications

References 61 publications

Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

Levels and Characteristics of Utilitarian Walking in the Central Areas of the Cities of Bologna and Porto

The most places at risk surrounding the COVID-19 treatment hospitals in an urban environment- case study: Tehran city

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

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