Active transportation to school provides a means for youth to incorporate physical activity into their daily routines, and this has obvious benefits for child health. Studies of active transportation have rarely focused on the negative health effects in terms of injury. This cross-sectional study is based on the 2009/10 Canadian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children survey. A sample of child...

The relationship between vegetation, transportation networks, and crime has been under debate. Vegetation has been positively correlated with fear of crime; however, the actual correlation between vegetation and occurrences of crime is uncertain. Transportation networks have also been connected with crime occurrence but their impact on crime tends to vary over different circumstances. By conduc...

this paper examines the effect of the poor road transportation network on crop production in one of the rural agrarian local government of kwara state, nigeria. a well-structured interview schedule was conducted to elicit information from 120 crop farmers using a two-stage sampling technique. findings from the study revealed that the poor road transportation network in their area had led to a r...

one of the main challenges facing urban planning in the late 20th century is the growth rate of traffic that influences access to sustainable urban development. one of the solutions proposed for traffic—as well as the economic, social, and environmental problems originating from it—in large cities has been the applying of traffic restrictions during certain times and in specific places in order...

in this paper, we develop a freight transportation model for railway network considering hazmat transportation issue. in the transportation system considered, different customers can request for carrying hazmat and non- hazmat boxes. it is assumed that the sequence of the trains in the network is known. the objective is assigning the non-hazmat boxes and hazmat boxes to wagons of the trains so ...

With the rapid development of transportation technology, public passenger traffic system construction investment is getting more and more expensive. Determining the development trend and make the optimal allocation of transportation investment becomes more and more important to the government. To describe the relationship and development trends of the integrated passenger transportation system ...

Changing the design aspects of urban form is a positive approach to improving transportation. Land use and urban design strategies have been proposed to not only to bring about changes in travel behavior but as a way of providing a better quality of life to the residents. While the research on the relationship between urban form and travel behavior has been pretty extensive, there is a clear ga...

In this study, we investigated the effect of ascorbic acid (AA) administration on goat excitability due to transportation. Ten goats administered AA (p.o.) at 100 mg/kg of body weight before transportation served as the experimental group, and seven goats administered only 10 ml/kg of sterile water (p.o.) served as controls. Excitability scores were recorded for each goat; when weighed, before,...

It is common knowledge among brain researchers that certain events, such as motor imagery, can elicit event-related synchronization/ desynchronization (ERD/ERS) of neurons in the brain, and that these phenomena manifest themselves in terms of band power changes in brain signals. There are, however, also important phase related changes in the brain signals associated with ERD/ERS which we invest...

Homophily has been a widely recognized dominant factor in offline social network connection, which refers to one’s propensity to seek interactions with others of similar status or values. Existing studies regarding homophily factors have been limited mostly to offline sociodemographic characteristics, such as race, gender, religion, education and occupation, which may not necessarily manifest h...