[HTML][HTML] Built environment associates of active school travel in New Zealand children and youth: A systematic meta-analysis using individual participant data

E Ikeda, T Stewart, N Garrett, V Egli, S Mandic… - Journal of Transport & …, 2018 - Elsevier
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined the associations between active travel
to school and the neighbourhood built environment in children and youth by systematically …

Can the neighborhood built environment make a difference in children's development? Building the research agenda to create evidence for place-based children's …

K Villanueva, H Badland, A Kvalsvig, M O'Connor… - Academic pediatrics, 2016 - Elsevier
Healthy child development is determined by a combination of physical, social, family,
individual, and environmental factors. Thus far, the majority of child development research …

[HTML][HTML] The last free-range children? Children's independent mobility in Finland in the 1990s and 2010s

M Kyttä, J Hirvonen, J Rudner, I Pirjola… - Journal of transport …, 2015 - Elsevier
The study reports the degree of children's independent mobility (CIM) in Finland for over two
decades, from the beginning of the 1990s up to 2011. The first part of the research examined …

The impact of parents' fear of strangers and perceptions of informal social control on children's independent mobility

S Foster, K Villanueva, L Wood, H Christian… - Health & place, 2014 - Elsevier
Declines in children's independent mobility are commonly attributed to parents' fear of
strangers, yet few empirical studies have investigated this relationship. We examined:(1) the …

[HTML][HTML] Children's travel to school—the interaction of individual, neighbourhood and school factors

S Easton, E Ferrari - Transport Policy, 2015 - Elsevier
The increase in average distance from home to secondary school over recent decades has
been accompanied by a significant growth in the proportion of pupils travelling to school by …

Social and built-environment factors related to children's independent mobility: the importance of neighbourhood cohesion and connectedness

EY Lin, K Witten, M Oliver, P Carroll, L Asiasiga… - Health & place, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examines aspects of neighbourhood social environments (namely,
neighbourhood safety, cohesion and connection) and child-specific built environment …

Do parental perceptions of the neighbourhood environment influence children's independent mobility? Evidence from Toronto, Canada

R Mitra, GEJ Faulkner, RN Buliung… - Urban Studies, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Children's independent mobility (CIM), or a child's freedom to explore their neighbourhood
unsupervised, is important for their psychological development and potentially enables daily …

Social and physical environmental correlates of independent mobility in children: a systematic review taking sex/gender differences into account

I Marzi, Y Demetriou, AK Reimers - International journal of health …, 2018 - Springer
Background Children's independent mobility (CIM) is an important contributor to physical
activity and health in children. However, in the last 20 years CIM has significantly decreased …

Social-ecological correlates of children's independent mobility: a systematic review

NA Riazi, K Wunderlich, L Yun, DC Paterson… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Children's independent mobility (IM) is associated with a range of benefits and
understanding the factors that influence IM can support creation of effective interventions …

Happiness in motion: Emotions, well‐being, and active school travel

S Ramanathan, C O'Brien, G Faulkner… - Journal of school …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND A pan‐Canadian School Travel Planning intervention
promoted active school travel (AST). A novel component was exploring emotion, well‐being …