School choice policy has implications for school travel as it allows students to attend schools farther from their residence than their neighborhood schools. This paper uses a case study from Oregon to investigate how school choice aff ects parents’ school travel decision making and the degree to which school choice aff ects children’s walking or biking to school. The research shows that school...

Recent advances in shopper insights reveal that consumers rarely “shop” the entire store. On average, shoppers’ paths only cover about one-third of the areas in a grocery store and hence are unexposed to the majority of products in the store. Given that shoppers typically use physical products in the store as an external memory cue, encouraging shoppers to travel more of the store may increase ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of cane length on the standing and walking stability of stroke patients. Ten stroke patients were used as subjects and evaluated by using two different cane lengths based on the measurements of the distance from distal wrist crease to the ground (WC cane), and the distance from greater trochanter to ground (GT cane). Force plates were u...

Determination of Travel Distance for Noninvasive Measurement of Pulse Wave Velocity: Case Closed? To the Editor: Carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV) is currently considered the gold-standard measurement for arterial stiffness.1 In clinical routine, noninvasive assessment is the only feasible method, whereas, for research purposes, catheter-based invasive determination, as well as MRI, m...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to estimate travel-related and environmental savings resulting from the use of telemedicine for outpatient specialty consultations with a university telemedicine program. METHODS The study was designed to retrospectively analyze the telemedicine consultation database at the University of California Davis Health System (UCDHS) between July 1996 and Dec...

OBJECTIVES In this pilot study within the Pretest 2 phase of the German National Cohort, we aimed to (1) test the hypothesis that distance and duration of travel to a study centre may affect participation rates and participants' satisfaction and (2) to obtain data that would help to select recruitment areas around the study centre Hannover with the greatest projected participation rate for the ...

I examined trends from 2005 through 2014 in walking to work compared with other modes of travel. For each year, I calculated the percentage of travel to work by private vehicle, public transportation, and walking and used distance decay functions to analyze the distribution of walking by distance. I found that the percentage of travel to work by walking remained stable, with a slight increase o...

In time-distance helioseismology, wave travel times are measured from the cross-correlation between Doppler velocities recorded at any two locations on the solar surface. However, one of the main uncertainties associated with such measurements is how to interpret observations made in regions of strong magnetic field. Isolating the effects of the magnetic field from thermal or soundspeed perturb...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of a combined intervention on children's travel behaviour, stage of behavioural change and motivations for and barriers to actively commuting to school. DESIGN A quasi-experimental trial involving pre- and post-intervention mapping of routes to school by active and inactive mode of travel and surveys of "stage of behaviour change" and motivations for and b...