BACKGROUND Since a decline in activity levels occurs in adolescence, active transport could be important to increase daily physical activity in older adolescents (17-18 years). To promote active transport, it is necessary to be aware of the barriers and facilitators of this type of transport, but also of other transport modes. This study sought to uncover the factors influencing the choice of t...

Since the beginning of civilization, the viability and economic success of communities have been, to a major extent, determined by the efficiency of the transportation infrastructure. To make informed transportation infrastructure planning decisions, planners and engineers have to be able to forecast the response of transportation demand to changes in the attributes of the transportation system...

Active travel can contribute to physical activity achieved over a day. Previous studies have examined active travel associated with trips in various western countries, but few studies have examined this question for the Asian context. Japan has high levels of cycling, walking and public transport, similar to The Netherlands. Most studies have focused either on children or on adults separately, ...

A sufficient knowledge of the demographics of a commuting public is essential in formulating and implementing more targeted transportation policies, as commuters exhibit different ways of traveling—including time in the day of travel, the duration of travel, and even the choice of transport mode. With the advent of the Automated Fare Collection system (AFC), probing the travel patterns of commu...

The global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008 rocked economies around the world. Several intermediate outcomes of the GFC included loss of jobs and reduced income. Relatively little research has, however, examined the impacts of the GFC on individual level travel behaviour change. To address this shortcoming, HABITAT panel data were employed to estimate a multinomial logit model to examine mode swi...

Fast growing economies are paralleled with extensive sprawl and an increasing trend in auto-mobilization. Hence there is a direct effect on the travel demand on transport systems. Cities are confronted by challenges to achieve sustainable alternatives to the benign effects of the private motorcar. The move from an auto-oriented city towards a lesser car reliant city is of dire need. The ways in...

BACKGROUND Though the United States of America (U.S.A.) obesity rate shows signs of leveling off, rates remain high. Poor nutrition contributes to the development of obesity, and physical inactivity is an important cause of numerous diseases and directly linked to obesity. Efforts to improve diet, increase physical activity and pursue other behavioral changes seem imperative. However, the effec...

Originally the charge, under the SRS, was for us simply to improve on the mobility system for severely handicapped people . We interpreted this to include short-range travel, long-range travel, inside and outside; as well as horizontally and vertically . In short, any transport system which would help in daily activities, job execution, or recreation was to be considered . A few hundred man-hou...