Stepping towards causation: do built environments or neighborhood and travel preferences explain physical activity, driving, and obesity?

By L. Frank, Brian Saelens, K. Powell, James E. Chapman. Social Science & Medicine (1967), 2007

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Subfields: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Transportation

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The local food environment and diet: A systematic review (2012, background): “In one study, Frank et al. (2007) measured the relationship between objective walkability and walking behavior, as well as people's preferences for living in a walkable neighborhood (Frank et al., 2007).”
In search of causality: a systematic review of the relationship between the built environment and physical activity among adults (2011, background): “Positive cross-sectional associations were found between neighborhood walkability - combination of commercial floor space, land use mix, residential density, and connectivity - and walking trips[50].”
How does neighborhood design affect life satisfaction? Evidence from Twin Cities (2016, methodology): “5 mile buffer, commonly used in the field (Frank et al., 2007; Song and Knaap, 2003), is adopted to measure land use mix.”
Exploring Causal Effects of Neighborhood Type on Walking Behavior Using Stratification on the Propensity Score (2010, background): “…self-selection, and virtually every study found a statistically significant influence of the built environment on travel behavior, controlling for self-selection (Boarnet and Sarmiento, 1998; Boarnet et al, 2005; Frank et al, 2007; Khattak and Rodriguez, 2005; Krizek, 2003; Vance and Hedel, 2007).”
Autonomous Vehicles: Developing a Public Health Research Agenda to Frame the Future of Transportation Policy (2017, background): “The relationship between the built environment and health has been a growing research area for public health scholarship in recent years (e.g., Chen and Zhou, 2016; Frank et al., 2004, 2007; Gordon-Larsen et al., 2006; Renalds et al., 2010).”
Residential self-selection and travel behaviour: What are the effects of attitudes, reasons for location choice and the built environment? (2017, positive): “Frank et al. (2007) found that if walkability was a reason for location choice (measured with different indicators), the number of walking trips was higher, both in low and highwalkableareas.”
Neighborhood Built Environment and Income: Examining Multiple Health Outcomes (2009, result): “…a scale (internal consistency alpha ¼ 0.76) of ‘‘reasons for moving’’ to the current home was computed by averaging ratings of importance of three items; ‘‘desire for nearby shops and services,’’ ‘‘ease of walking,’’ and ‘‘closeness to recreational facilities’’ (adapted from Frank et al., 2007).”
The role of residential self-selection in land use-travel research: a review of recent findings (2020, background): “Most studies support this conclusion except two studies that relied on descriptive analysis (Frank et al., 2007, for auto trips; Wolday et al., 2018, for transit trips).”
GPS tracking in neighborhood and health studies: a step forward for environmental exposure assessment, a step backward for causal inference? (2013, background): “, 2012c), in analogy to the wellknown ‘‘selective residential migration bias’’ in studies of residential neighborhoods and health (Frank et al., 2007; van Lenthe et al., 2007), we described ‘‘selective daily mobility’’ as a source of confounding of a comparable nature for environment-health studies ”
Travel and cognitive dissonance (2020, background): “People who do not live in a neighbourhood consistent with their travel attitudes might have to adjust their travel behaviour and (frequently) use a nonpreferred travel mode stimulated by the built environment characteristics (e.g., Cao 2015; Cho & Rodriguez, 2014; De Vos et al., 2012; Frank et al., ”