BACKGROUND Perceptions of one's environment and functional status have been linked to physical activity in older adults. However, little is known about these associations over time, and even less about the possible mediators of this relationship. We examined the roles played by neighborhood satisfaction, functional limitations, self-efficacy, and physical activity in a sample of older women ove...

There is increasing evidence that the quality of green space significantly contributes to neighborhood satisfaction and well-being, independent of the mere amount of green space. In this paper, we examined residents' perceptions of the quality and beneficial affordances of green space in relation to objectively assessed accessibility and usability. We used data from a survey in two neighborhood...

Freuder and Elfe [1996] introduced Neighborhood Inverse Consistency (NIC) as a new local consistency property for Constraint Satisfaction Problems (CSPs) that filters the domains of variables. Two advantages of the algorithm for enforcing NIC is that it automatically adapts its filtering power to the local connectivity of the network and has insignificant space overhead. In this document, we di...

Public bike sharing systems are important alternatives to motorized individual traffic and are gaining popularity in larger cities worldwide. In order to maintain user satisfaction, operators need to actively rebalance the systems so that there are enough bikes available for rental as well as sufficient free slots for returning them at each station. This is done by a vehicle fleet that moves bi...

In this paper we focus on gaining insight into the residential satisfaction of households near highways, based on survey data collected among 1,225 respondents in the Netherlands living within 1,000 meters from a highway. Ordinal regression was used to study the impact of highway externalities on residential satisfaction. Moreover, we gained first insights into the reactions of people on highwa...

security is one of the most important human needs. researchers believe that the need for security has a strong and close relationship with the physical characteristics of the environment and people’s satisfaction. to study the relationship between security and environmental (physical and social) satisfaction, ‘’cpted’’ approach and its principals in design and environmental planning and urban l...

introduction cities and neighborhoods in iran couldn’t adjust themselves to quick changes of the recent decades and have lost their quality in many aspects. due to poor planning and governance at the regional and urban design on physical function, rapid growth of large-scale migrations and inefficient policies and procedures in dealing with urban neighborhoods neglected urban neighborhoods as w...