Background: Less than one-third of US adults walk for transportation. Public health
strategies to increase transportation walking would benefit from knowing what adults think is …

BACKGROUND: Walking distance is an important concept in the fields of transportation and
public health. A distance of 0.25 miles is often used as an acceptable walking distance in US …

The question of the correlates of walking is at the intersection between health and
transportation because walking can be both a physical activity behavior and a travel …

Background: We report walking for shopping, exercise, transportation, and walking the dog,
among other sources captured in the 2003 to 2005 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) …

Methods Cross-sectional analyses at two time points used data from the 1995 Nationwide
Personal Transportation Survey and the subsequent 2001 National Household Travel …

Background: Walking, the most commonly reported physical activity among US adults, is
undertaken in various domains, including transportation and leisure. Methods: This study …

OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to contrast the demographic correlates of leisure and
transportation walking. METHODS: Using data from the 2005 National Health Interview …

Objective The purpose of this study is to examine socio-demographic, geographic and
physical activity correlates of walking and cycling for non-leisure purposes, ie, to work …

ABSTRACT EYLER, AA, RC BROWNSON, SJ BACAK, and RA HOUSEMANN. The
Epidemiology of Walking for Physical Activity in the United States. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc …

Background: Walking is the most common physical activity for adults with important
implications for urban planning and public health. Recreational walking has received …