Walkability and its relationships with health, sustainability, and livability: elements of physical environment and evaluation frameworks

A Baobeid, M Koç, SG Al-Ghamdi - Frontiers in Built Environment, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Urban sprawl and increasing population density in urban centers create the challenge to
finding ways of sustainable transportation solutions that preserve the convenience of …

Built environment attributes and their influence on walkability

F Fonseca, PJG Ribeiro, E Conticelli… - International Journal …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Walking is a sustainable mode of transport and a healthy way of doing physical activity.
Walkability is a concept that has gained enormous popularity in recent years due to its …

An open science study of ageing in companion dogs

KE Creevy, JM Akey, M Kaeberlein, DEL Promislow - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Dog Aging Project is a long-term longitudinal study of ageing in tens of
thousands of companion dogs. The domestic dog is among the most variable mammal …

The time-varying effects of physical environment for walkability on neighborhood crime

YA Kim, JC Wo - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study conducts a spatial-temporal examination of physical environment for
walkability and crime in block groups located across nine US cities. We aggregated the …

Spatial pattern of the walkability index, walk score and walk score modification for elderly

J Horak, P Kukuliac, P Maresova, L Orlikova… - … International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Contemporary cities require excellent walking conditions to support human physical activity,
increase humans' well-being, reduce traffic, and create a healthy urban environment …

Redefining walkability to capture safety: Investing in pedestrian, bike, and street level design features to make it safe to walk and bike

B Wali, LD Frank - Transportation research part A: policy and practice, 2024 - Elsevier
Walkable neighborhoods provide significant sustainability, health, and motorized user safety
benefits. Far less consideration is given to the potential pedestrian/bicyclist safety-related …

Walkability measures to predict the likelihood of walking in a place: A classification and regression tree analysis

RR Dalmat, SJ Mooney, PM Hurvitz, C Zhou… - Health & place, 2021 - Elsevier
Walkability is a popular and ubiquitous term at the intersection of urban planning and public
health. As the number of potential walkability measures grows in the literature, there is a …

Exploring the spatial scale effects of built environments on transport walking: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

J Li, AH Auchincloss, JA Hirsch, SJ Melly, KA Moore… - Health & place, 2022 - Elsevier
We employed a longitudinal distributed lag modeling approach to systematically estimate
how associations between built environment features and transport walking decayed with …

Does the built environment have independent obesogenic power? Urban form and trajectories of weight gain

JH Buszkiewicz, JF Bobb, PM Hurvitz… - International Journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Objective To determine whether selected features of the built environment can predict
weight gain in a large longitudinal cohort of adults. Methods Weight trajectories over a 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between neighborhood built environment, residential property values, and adult BMI change: the Seattle Obesity Study III

JH Buszkiewicz, CM Rose, LK Ko, J Mou… - SSM-Population …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To examine associations between neighborhood built environment (BE) variables,
residential property values, and longitudinal 1-and 2-year changes in body mass index …