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Category Archives: Active Transport
Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with a Lower Risk of Gestational Diabetes
Continuing our partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to study how urban built environments influence health during pregnancy we recently published research showing that higher neighborhood walkability is associated with lower risk of gestational diabetes. Gestational … Continue reading
Posted in Active Transport, Adults, Childhood, Diabetes, Urban Design, Walkability
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Higher Neighborhood Walkability is Associated with a Lower Risk of Excessive Weight Gain During Pregnancy
In partnership with the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene we have been studying how neighborhood environments influence health during pregnancy and birth outcomes, with recent work focusing on weight gain during pregnancy. In 2009, the Institute of Medicine … Continue reading
Newly Funded Work on Pedestrian Injury
We have recently been funded by NIH to conduct a four-year study of how urban design, the locations of alcohol selling establishments, night life districts and locations of services for the homeless influence pedestrian fatality risk. We will be conducting … Continue reading
Measuring Neighborhood Walkability across Communities in the U.S. Over the Past Three Decades
The evidence on links between neighborhood walkability and physical activity and body mass index remains limited because there have been few longitudinal studies with repeated measures of neighborhood walkability and health behavior and outcomes. While large cohort studies with long-term … Continue reading
National Geographic Cities Issue
Just a quick note: The April 2019 issue of National Geographic focuses on Cities and how to redesign them to support health, sustainability and community. The issue covers transit oriented design, China’s new urban design regulations, walking through Tokyo, the … Continue reading
Free-floating Bike Share in Seattle
BEH member Steve Mooney recently led two studies regarding the use of the free-floating bike share system in Seattle. (Free-floating bike share systems are systems that allow users to pick up and leave bikes anywhere within a service area rather … Continue reading
Webinar – Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City
On Thursday March 2nd at 3pm EST, Dr. Rundle will give a webinar entitled “Urban Informatics: Studying How Urban Design Influences Health in New York City” for the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. You can register for … Continue reading
Posted in Accelerometers, Active Transport, GPS, Physical Activity, Walkability
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Neighborhood Physical Disorder and Physical Activity Among Older Adults in NYC
Through the years, we have done a fair amount of work to collect and validate measures of neighborhood physical disorder – urban deterioration – using our CANVAS/Google Street View system. Neighborhood disorder is controversial construct and measure, not only because … Continue reading
Measuring Pedestrian Activity Using GPS Logger Data
It has been suggested that GPS monitoring data can be used to estimate distances traveled and speeds of travel during active and non-active travel journeys and, that when combined with accelerometer monitoring, GPS data can be used to identify travel … Continue reading
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The CDC and DoT’s Transportation and Health Tool
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Department of Transportation just released the new Transportation and Health Tool, which provides easy access to data that examines the health impacts of transportation systems. The Transportation and Health Tool provides data … Continue reading
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