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Active Travel Studies, 2022 Background: Walking and cycling to school have been extensively studied in urban settings, whereas data from rural areas remain sparse. This study examined perceptions of walking and cycling to school amongst adolescents living within 4.8 km of school in
Debbie Hopkins +4 more
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Traveling Strings of Active Dipolar Colloids [PDF]
Physical Review LettersWe study an intriguing new type of self-assembled active colloidal polymer system in 3D. It is obtained from a suspension of Janus particles in an electric field that induces parallel dipoles in the particles as well as self-propulsion in the plane perpendicular to the field.
Xichen Chao +4 more
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The Social Practice and Regulation of Cycling as "A Boy’s Thing" in Irish Secondary Schools
Active Travel Studies, 2022 Despite low levels of cycling to secondary education across the adolescent population in Ireland, there is, in addition, a pronounced inequality in rates of ridership between teenage girls and boys, with nearly 10 times as many boys cycling to school ...
Jane Hackett, Robert Egan
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Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2021 COVID-19 has made unprecedented impacts on our daily life. This paper investigates individuals' immediate response to COVID-19, exploring out-of-home activities, in-home activities, and long-distance travel. Data for the Kelowna region of Canada comes from a web-based COVID-19 Survey for assessing Travel impact (COST).
Mahmudur Rahman Fatmi +2 more
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Apps, activities and travel: an conceptual exploration based on activity theory [PDF]
Transportation, 2017 With the continuous advancement of (mobile) ICT devices and applications, their impact on travel, activities and time use becomes more diverse. This holds in particular for apps developed for mobile devices (smartphones). In this paper, we argue that the effect of ICT on travel and activities should be analysed at the level of a single specific device ...
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Everyday Discourses of Climate Delay in Opposition to Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Active Travel StudiesClimate change is unequivocal, yet public conversations negating the need for urgent action remain. Discourses of climate delay, which create the sense of intractable obstacles to action, are one form of this.
David Fevyer +4 more
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Active travel intervention and physical activity behaviour: An evaluation [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2014 A physically active lifestyle is an important contributor to individual health and well-being. The evidence linking higher physical activity levels with better levels of morbidity and mortality is well understood. Despite this, physical inactivity remains a major global risk factor for mortality and, consequently, encouraging individuals to pursue ...
Norwood, Patricia +4 more
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Defining Active Travel: A Response to Cook et al, 2022
Active Travel StudiesCook et al. (2022) have defined active travel as that in which “physical exertion of the traveller directly contributes to their motion”. This response argues that there is more value and justice in an inclusive definition that incorporates non-normative
Harriet Larrington-Spencer
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Active Travel StudiesLow traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) involve the use of modal filters to limit motorised traffic from residential streets while retaining access for people walking, wheeling and cycling. They can be seen as part of a set of place-based approaches focused at
Graeme Sherriff +1 more
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Active Travel Studies, 2022 an exemplary cycle infrastructure: cycle paths all over the place, cycle traffic lights in abundance, and “cycle highways” emerging (Skov-Petersen et al., 2017; Liu et al., 2019; Cabral Dias and Gomes Ribeiro, 2020 ...
Ida Sabelis
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