Correlates of the Built Environment and Active Travel: Evidence from 20 US Metropolitan Areas.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Walking and bicycling are health-promoting and environmentally friendly alternatives to the automobile. Previous studies that explore correlates of active travel and the built environment are for a single metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and results often vary among MSAs.

Objectives

Our goal was to model the relationship between the built environment and active travel for 20 MSAs spanning the continental United States.

Methods

We sourced and processed pedestrian and bicycle traffic counts for 20 U.S. MSAs (n=4,593 count locations), with 1–17 y of data available for each count location and the earliest and latest years of data collection being 1999 and 2016, respectively. Then, we tabulated land use, transport, and sociodemographic variables at 12

SUBMITTER: Le HTK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6108845 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature