The increasing travel demands and the growing diversity of trip purposes in megacities are placing more pressure on the urban transportation system, and there is an urgent need to popularize public transportation and control the exploding increase in travels by private cars. In order to enhance the competence of public transportation and establish a balance among various travel modes in megacit...

ISSUES ADDRESSED Active travel can increase population levels of physical activity, but should be promoted equitably. Socio-economic advantage, housing location and/or car ownership influence walking and cycling (active travel) for transport. We examined active commuting over time in the Sydney Greater Metropolitan Region, and associations between active commuting and socioeconomic advantage, u...

BACKGROUND Promoting walking or cycling to work (active commuting) could help to increase population physical activity levels. According to the habit discontinuity and residential self-selection hypotheses, moving home or workplace is a period when people (re)assess, and may be more likely to change, their travel behavior. Research in this area is dominated by the use of quantitative research m...

BACKGROUND Active travel is associated with greater physical activity, but there is a dearth of research examining this relationship over time. We examined the longitudinal associations between change in time spent in active commuting and changes in recreational and total physical activity. METHODS Adult commuters working in Cambridge, United Kingdom completed questionnaires in 2009 and 2012,...

As a consequence of extensive urban growth, local transportation systems are facing enormous challenges, leading to massive investments in infrastructure and travel demand management measures to steer demand for specific travel modes. Meanwhile, technological advancements are creating unprecedented opportunities for collecting and utilizing travel data at previously unknown levels of detail. Su...

Most people have certain acceptance of daily travel distance, which determines where they choose to live, to work, and to go for leisure. Such information is an important input for facility location-allocation, urban planning and transport management. Therefore, daily commuting distance has been adopted as an indicator to measure the distance acceptance, the rationality of land use structure, a...

BACKGROUND Active commuting is prospectively associated with physical activity in children. Few longitudinal studies have assessed predictors of change in commuting mode. PURPOSE To investigate the individual, socio-cultural and environmental predictors of uptake and maintenance of active commuting in 10-year-old children. METHODS Children were recruited in 2007 and followed-up 12 months la...

Rapid growth of the Information Technology (IT) sector in Bangalore, India, has transformed the city’s urban-industrial landscape since the liberalization of India’s economy in 1991. The city’s IT sector is closely integrated with a global system of production and caters largely to a global clientele. Apart from the impact of these developments on urban form, there are indications that they are...

Concerns over transportation energy consumption and green-household gas (GHG) emissions have prompted a growing body of research into the influence of built environment on travel behavior. Studies on the relationship between land use and travel behavior are often at some aggregated spatial unit such as traffic analysis zone (TAZ), spatial issues occurs among individuals clustered within a zone ...