Mechanisms underpinning use of new walking and cycling infrastructure in different contexts: mixed-method analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few studies have evaluated the effects of infrastructural improvements to promote walking and cycling. Even fewer have explored how the context and mechanisms of such interventions may interact to produce their outcomes.

Methods

This mixed-method analysis forms part of the UK iConnect study, which aims to evaluate new walking and cycling routes at three sites - Cardiff, Kenilworth and Southampton. Applying a complementary follow-up approach, we first identified differences in awareness and patterns of use of the infrastructure in survey data from a cohort of adult residents at baseline in spring 2010 (n = 3516) and again one (n = 1849) and two (n = 1510) years later following completion of the infrastructural projects (Analysis 1). We subsequently analysed data fr

SUBMITTER: Sahlqvist S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4340230 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature