Walking to public transit: steps to help meet physical activity recommendations.

By Lilah M. Besser, A. Dannenberg. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2005

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Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Transportation

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In Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation

1. Megan M. Patton-López
2. James F. Sallis
3. T. Litman
4. Brian Saelens

In Transportation

1. S. Handy
2. R. Ewing
3. Brian Saelens
4. James F. Sallis
5. Robert Cervero
6. Xinyu Cao
7. T. Litman
8. J. De Vos

Citations in the corpus

• Evaluating Public Transit Benefits and Costs: Best Practices Guidebook (2004, background): “Most transit trips involve walking or cycling links, so transit use tends to increase physical activity (Weinstein and Schimek, 2005; Besser and Dannenberg, 2005).”
• Built Environment Correlates of Walking: A Review (2008, background): “There was considerable variability in the type of walking assessed, ranging from walking to a specific location [5], to a specific type of walking such recreational walking [21] or walking to a store [30] to total [26] or general walking (e.”
• Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States. (2009, background): “In a study that analyzed data from the 2001 National Household Travel Survey, researchers indicated that 29% of individuals who walk to and from public transit achieve at least 30 minutes of daily physical activity (114).”
• Physical activity and food environments: solutions to the obesity epidemic. (2009, background): “Driving itself is an independent risk factor for obesity (Frank, Andresen, and Schmid 2004; Lopez-Zetina, Lee, and Friis 2006), whereas users of public transit are more likely to meet physical activity guidelines (Besser and Dannenberg 2005).”
• A Morning Stroll (2007, background): “A recent national telephone survey found that transit users (bus and train) reported a median of 19 mins daily walking as part of their commute and 29% walked 30 mins a day or more (Besser & Dannenberg, 2005).”
• Evaluating Public Transit Benefits and Costs (2015, background): “Public transit users average about three times as much walking as people who rely on automobile transport, nearly achieving the 22 daily minutes of moderate physical activity considered necessary for health (Besser and Dannenberg 2005; Weinstein and Schimek 2005; Wener and Evans 2007).”
• Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, background): “…promotion of walking and cycling for transportation complemented by public transportation or any other active mode—is a form of transportation that reduces environmental barriers to physical activity and can improve health outcomes (Besser and Dannenberg, 2005; Dannenberg et al., 2011).”
• Travel and the Built Environment (2010, background): “Transit use is less obviously related to public health, but is still classified as active travel since it almost always requires a walk at one or both ends of the trip ( Besser & Dannenberg, 2005 ; Edwards, 2008 ; Zheng, 2008 ).”
• Walkable Route Perceptions and Physical Features (2007, unknown): “…facilities (Chad et al., 2005), parks and/or open space (Foster et al., 2004; Giles-Corti & Donovan, 2002; King et al., 2003; Li, Fisher, & Brownson, 2005; Timperio, Crawford, Telford, & Salmon, 2004), or public transportation stops (Besser & Dannenberg, 2005; De Bourdeaudhuij et al., 2003).”