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Walking to Public Transit: Steps to Help Meet Physical Activity Recommendations

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Walking to and from public transportation can help physically inactive populations, especially low-income and minority groups, attain the recommended level of daily physical activity.
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This article is published in American Journal of Preventive Medicine.The article was published on 2005-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 643 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surgeon general & Public transport.

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How do metro stations integrate with walking environments? Results from walking access within three types of built environment in Beijing

TL;DR: Empirical data on the influence of local environmental characteristics on walking access in Beijing found that mean walking time from the metro station to a destination was 8 min, and greater connectivity, both perceived and measured, predicted shorter walking times.
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Public transit generates new physical activity: evidence from individual GPS and accelerometer data before and after light rail construction in a neighborhood of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

TL;DR: Results suggest that transit use directly generates new PA that is not shifted from other PA, which supports the public health benefits from new high quality public transit such as LRT.
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Exposure to walkable neighbourhoods in urban areas increases utilitarian walking: Longitudinal study of Canadians

TL;DR: Exposure to more walkable neighbourhoods and moving from less walkable to moreWalkable neighbourhoods were associated with increases in utilitarian walking, even for individuals who were otherwise inactive in their leisure time.
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Obesity and the built environment at different urban scales: examining the literature*

TL;DR: Examination of current empirical literature on the environment and obesity at 3 key urban scales: macro, meso, and micro finds evidence for a relationship between urban and suburban environments and obesity is found, but the lack of longitudinal research and research controlling for self-selection bias remains underrepresented.
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Factors Associated with Federal Transportation Funding for Local Pedestrian and Bicycle Programming and Facilities

TL;DR: Improved data tracking, more explicit linkages between transportation projects and public health, and improved planning assistance to underserved communities are all seen as essential steps for improving public health outcomes.
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Physical Activity And Health: A Report Of The Surgeon General

TL;DR: This report is the first report of the Surgeon General on physical activity and health, and strong evidence is shown to indicate that regular physical activity will provide clear and substantial health gains.
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Physical Activity and Public Health

Paul T. Williams
- 16 Aug 1995 - 
TL;DR: Further explanation is required of Dr Pate and colleagues' Figures 1 and 2 and the recommendation's contradiction with research that supports more vigorous activity, as well as their Figure 1, which shows a diminishing return in health benefit with increasing exercise level.
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Neighborhood-Based Differences in Physical Activity: An Environment Scale Evaluation

TL;DR: Neighborhood environment was associated with physical activity and overweight prevalence and the reliability and validity of self-reported neighborhood environment subscales were supported.
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How the built environment affects physical activity: views from urban planning

TL;DR: To provide more conclusive evidence, the available evidence lends itself to the argument that a combination of urban design, land use patterns, and transportation systems that promotes walking and bicycling will help create active, healthier, and more livable communities.
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Q1. What are the contributions in this paper?

Results from this study may contribute to health impact assessment studies ( HIA ) that evaluate the impact of proposed public transit systems on physical activity levels, and thereby may influence choices made by transportation planners. 

Improvements to the built environment, such as ncreased access to public transit, may provide a viable nd effective option to promote and maintain active ifestyles.he authors would like to thank Sandra Ham at the Centers or Disease Control and Prevention’s Division of Nutrition nd Physical Activity for her comments and suggestions. 

22easons for more walking among low-income populaions could be that they are more likely to live in urban reas with better access to transit or are less likely to wn a personal automobile. 

This study also suggests that 29% of ransit walkers achieve 30 minutes of daily physical ctivity solely by walking to and from transit. 

For xample, results from this report are being used to stimate the amount of transit-related walking that ould result from a proposed 22-mile, urban light-rail oop in Atlanta.30 HIA studies may influence choices ade by transportation planners and other communityecision makers. 

People walking 30 minutes to and from transit were significantly ore likely to be African American, Hispanic, Asian/ acific Islander, or from another race/ethnic category han to be white, and were somewhat (borderline ignificant association) more likely to live in an area ith 4000 to 9999 people per square mile than in an rea with 4000 people per square mile (OR 1.63, 5% CI 0.99–2.68). 

This study rovides some evidence that walking to and from ransit can help physically inactive populations (espeially minority groups and people of lower socioecoomic status) attain 30 minutes of daily physical activty.