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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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Travel and the Built Environment

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the built environment-travel literature existing at the end of 2009 is conducted in order to draw generalizable conclusions for practice, and finds that vehicle miles traveled is most strongly related to measures of accessibility to destinations and secondarily to street network design variables.
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Built environment correlates of walking: a review.

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Physical Activity and Food Environments: Solutions to the Obesity Epidemic

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Recommended community strategies and measurements to prevent obesity in the United States.

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Neighborhood built environment and income: examining multiple health outcomes.

TL;DR: It was concluded that living in walkable neighborhoods was associated with more physical activity and lower overweight/obesity but not with other benefits, and lower- and higher-income groups benefited similarly from living in high-walkability neighborhoods.
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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.