Lack of longitudinal research hinders causal inference on the association between the built environment and walking. In the present study, we used data from 6,027 adults in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis who were 45-84 years of age at baseline to investigate the association of neighborhood built environment with trends in the amount of walking between 2000 and 2012. Walking for trans...

Spatio-temporal networks are becoming popular with the rise of traffic information being incorporated into street mapping utilities such as Google Maps. This additional information adds potentially large time series of traffic information to each road segment. Naive implementations of secondary storage of spatio-temporal networks may not be sufficient, as current techniques commonly store entir...

Distance is a recognized key determinant of walking. Pedestrians tend to choose the shortest route between two points. Shortest routes can be spatially described in terms distances points or topologically as number turns/directional changes these This paper presents methodology evaluate conditions provided by street network pedestrians, using space syntax measures. Accessibility was calculated ...

Planners and architects should be able to incorporate digital technologies data utilization fulfil their professional duty of speculating how people will interact transact with urban configurations. Analysing spatial patterns association social behaviour contributes harnessing the impact connectivity on economic, social, environmental, land value growth. This research presents a mathematical re...

BACKGROUND Environmental factors may influence the particularly low rates of physical activity in African American and low-income adults. This cross-sectional study investigated how measured environmental factors were related to self-reported walking and vigorous physical activity for residents of low-income public housing developments. METHODS Physical activity data from 452 adult residents ...

16. Abstract This study defines a novel connectivity indicator (CI) to predict transit performance by identifying the role that street network connectivity plays in influencing the service quality of demand responsive feeder transit services. This new CI definition is dependent upon the expected shortest path between any two nodes in the network, includes spatial features and transit demand dis...

BACKGROUND Women living in socio-economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods are at increased risk for physical inactivity and associated health outcomes and are difficult to reach through personally tailored interventions. Targeting the built environment may be an effective strategy in this population subgroup. The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of environmental perceptions ...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...