Why is active travel more satisfying than motorized travel? Evidence from Dublin

Non-motorized Travel

We need more active travel intervention research - why not travel plans?

A high proportion of published health promotion research on physical activity is descriptive, and there is a need formore published intervention research. Although travel planning has been described as a promising way to promote population-level physical activity, a Cochrane systematic review of organisational travel plan interventions for improving health identified 17 studies, 12 of which wer...

The Built Environment and Active Travel: Evidence from Nanjing, China

BACKGROUND An established relationship exists between the built environment and active travel. Nevertheless, the literature examining the impacts of different components of the built environment is limited. In addition, most existing studies are based on data from cities in the U.S. and Western Europe. The situation in Chinese cities remains largely unknown. Based on data from Nanjing, China, t...

Active Travel Behavior

Paper is submitted for Presentation at the 88 th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board only. This paper has been submitted for publication in Transportation Letters (July 2008) and therefore does not conform to the word count and citation requirements specified for publication in the Transportation Research Record. ABSTRACT Physical inactivity has become a dominant feature of most...

Heterogeneity in the Correlates of Motorized and Non - Motorized Travel in Germany The Intervening Role

Drawing on individual-level mobility data from Germany between 1996 and 2009, this analysis econometrically investigates the determinants of automobile, public transit, and non-motorized travel against the backdrop of two questions: 1) Does gender play a role in determining the relative use of motor and non-motorized modes? 2) If so, how is this role mitigated or exacerbated by other socioecono...