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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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Aging in Place: A State Survey of Livability Policies and Practices

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined state policies that are needed to help older adults age in place, including integrating land use, housing and transportation, efficiently delivering services in the home, providing more transportation choices, particularly for older adults who no longer drive, and improving affordable, accessible housing to prevent social isolation.
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The contribution of active travel to children's physical activity levels: cross-sectional results from the ALSPAC study.

TL;DR: Children who regularly walk to school are more active during the week than those travelling by car, especially if the distance is >0.5 mile, and increasing participation in active travel might be a useful part of an overall strategy to increase population PA.
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Attributes of environments supporting walking.

TL;DR: This study established a framework to audit environments supporting walking in neighborhoods using a telephone survey and 200 objective environmental variables to offer valid environmental measures of neighborhood walkability.

Evaluating Public Transit Benefits and Costs

Todd Litman
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive framework for evaluating the full impacts (benefits and costs) of a particular transit service or improvement, identifying various categories of impacts and how to measure them.
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The Walkable Neighborhood: A Literature Review

TL;DR: The past decade has seen a surge of interest in the walkable neighborhood, motivated by environmental, health, economic, and communitarian goals as discussed by the authors, and this literature is organized into three broad categories: measurement, criticism, and tests of the benefits of walkableneighborhoods.
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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.