Physical activity (PA) promotes healthy life and contributes to sustainable development. In this paper, we rely on the Utah Household Travel Survey data and analyze the determinants of PA in terms of neighborhood land use, accessibility to transportation, and socio-demographic status in Salt Lake County, Utah, United States using four-component walkability indices at various geographic scales. ...

BACKGROUND Differences in the neighborhood food environment may contribute to disparities in obesity. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the association of neighborhood food environments with body mass index (BMI) and obesity after control for neighborhood walkability. METHODS This study employed a cross-sectional, multilevel analysis of BMI and obesity among 13,102 adult r...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether neighbourhood walkability is associated with clinical measures of obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidaemia in an urban adult population. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional study. SETTING Urban primary care patients. PARTICIPANTS 78 023 Toronto residents, aged 18 years and over, who were formally rostered or had at least 2 visits between 2012 and 2...

BACKGROUND Better physical functioning in the elderly may be associated with higher physical activity levels. Since older adults spend a substantial part of the day in their residential neighborhood, the neighborhood physical environment may moderate associations between functioning and older adults' physical activity. The present study investigated the moderating role of the objective and perc...

New strategies to improve the quality of urban pedestrian environments are becoming increasingly important in sustainable city planning. This trend has been driven by advantages that active mobility provides terms health, social, and environmental aspects. Our work explores idea walkability. concept refers friendliness environment traffic. We propose a framework based on multi-criteria decision...

Abstract. Pedestrians are an important part of a city. In reducing gas emissions on earth, people encouraged to reduce the use motorized vehicles and walk. The purpose this study was identify walkability performance H.M Sani pedestrian path. This involved 100 respondents with sample acquisition method in form questionnaire where obtained by accidental systematic sampling. analytical used is qua...

Urbanization’s gradual acceleration has become the main trend. Thus, it is obvious that urban landscape more important compare with before. There are many previous researchers find out a strong relationship between walkability environment and human health. This research aims to increase quality in space, particularly, on streets. study will focus four streets connected Cathy Freeman Park relate...

More walkable cities contribute to building a sustainable city. In the last decades, increase in number of urban displacements carried out by foot highlights importance developing methods that seek analyze quality this infrastructure propose improvements for these users. context, paper aims present result evaluation mobility destined walkability practical and leisure purposes two areas an impor...