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Jemima C. Stockton, Oliver Duke-Williams, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Jennifer S. Mindell + 2 more
'Jennifer S. Mindell' 'Eric J. Brunner' 'Nicola J. Shelton'] Background Physical activity is essential for health; walking is the easiest way to incorporate activity into everyday life. Previous studies report positive associations between neighbourhood walkability and walking but most focused on cities in North…
Shilong Xiang
Urban walkability is a cornerstone of public health, sustainability, and quality of life. Traditional walkability assessments rely on surveys and field audits, which are costly and difficult to scale. Recent studies have used satellite imagery, street view imagery, or population indicators to estimate walkability, but…
Antonio Zumelzu, Mariana Estrada, Marta Moya, Jairo Troppa + 4 more
'Pauline Van den Berg' 'Bernd Resch' 'Gamze Dane' 'Amit Birenboim'] In Latin American cities, the built environment is facing crucial challenges in the 21st century, not only in terms of the redesign of the physical environment, but also how to remodel public spaces as healthier places for walking and social…
Xuan Li, Dan Xie, Zhiyu Zhou, Xin Zhang + 4 more
The study of walkability is of great significance to the construction of healthy cities. In this paper, taking 1283 articles of walkability, which were included in Web of Science, as the research object. This paper adopts to analysis the research progress by using the method of scientometrics and knowledge networks…
Darren J. Mayne, Geoffrey G. Morgan, Bin B. Jalaludin, Adrian E. Bauman
'Adrian E. Bauman'] Background Individual-level studies support a positive relation between walkable built environments and participation in moderate-intensity walking. However, the utility of this evidence for population-level planning is less clear as it is derived at much finer spatial scales than those used for…
Daniele Quercia, Luca Maria Aiello, Rossano Schifanella, A L Davies
Walkability has many health, environmental, and economic benefits. That is why web and mobile services have been offering ways of computing walkability scores of individual street segments. Those scores are generally computed from survey data and manual counting (of even trees). However, that is costly, owing to the…
Nishit Patel, Hoang-Ha Nguyen, Jet van de Geest, Alfred Wagtendonk + 7 more
'Mohan JS Raju' 'Payam Dadvand' 'Kees de Hoogh' 'Marta Cirach' 'Mark Nieuwenhuijsen' 'Thao Minh Lam' 'Jeroen Lakerveld'] Physical inactivity significantly contributes to obesity and other non-communicable diseases, yet efforts to increase population-wide physical activity levels have met with limited success. The built…
Ye Sun, Wei Lu, Peijin Sun, Rui Leandro Maia + 1 more
Enhancing the walkability of urban streets is an effective means to improve public health, alleviate traffic congestion, and enhance the living environment. In China, the government has actively encouraged green travel and promoted improvements in the walk system. The walkability of the built environment is affected by…
Fen Zeng, Zhenjiang Shen
Walking maintains an indisputable advantage as a simple transport mode over short distances. Various situations have shown that when staying in a walk-friendly built environment, people are more likely to walk and interact with their surroundings. Scholars have reported some evidence of the influence of neighbourhood…
Zeynep S. Akinci, Xavier Delclòs-Alió, Guillem Vich, Deborah Salvo + 2 more
'Jesús Ibarluzea' 'Carme Miralles-Guasch'] Background Walking is an essential activity for everyone and for older adults in particular, given that it is the most accessible form of physical activity and one of the healthiest transportation modes. Understanding how walkability (the potential of the environment to enable…
Minkun Kim
In this article, we explore two effective means to communicate the concept of walkability - 1) visualization, and 2) descriptive statistics. We introduce the concept of walkability as measuring the quality of an urban space based on the distance needed to walk from that space to a range of different social…
Tim Althoff, Boris Ivanovic, Jennifer L. Hicks, Scott L. Delp + 2 more
physical activity Authors: ['Tim Althoff' 'Boris Ivanovic' 'Jennifer L. Hicks' 'Scott L. Delp' '\xadAbby C. King' 'Jure Leskovec'] While physical activity is critical to human health, most people do not meet recommended guidelines1, 2. More walkable built environments have the potential to increase activity across the…
Mi Ra Chang, Gi-bbeum Lee, Ji‐Hyun Lee
The walkability of destinations plays a decisive role in obtaining a sense of place for urban visitors. For an improved walkability-based visit experience, the city structure is analyzed by dividing it into small units, starting with the destination. However, existing studies focus on the walkability of residents by…
Francesco Marzolla, Matteo Bruno, Hygor P. M. Melo, Vittorio Loreto
The 15-minute city concept, advocating for cities where essential services are accessible within 15 minutes on foot and by bike, has gained significant attention in recent years. However, despite being celebrated for promoting sustainability, there is an ongoing debate regarding its effectiveness in reducing car usage…
Anna C. Render, Joseph P. Cusumano, Jonathan B. Dingwell
People with balance impairments often struggle performing turns or lateral maneuvers, which can increase risk of falls and injuries. Here we asked how people’s mediolateral balance is impacted when walking on non-straight winding paths. Twenty-four healthy adults (12F/12M; 25.8±3.5 yrs) participated. Each walked on…
Anna C. Render, Tarkeshwar Singh, Joseph P. Cusumano, Jonathan B. Dingwell
Effectively navigating daily environments necessitates achieving adaptability while maintaining stability. This requires integrating sensory feedback, primarily from the visual system, to maintain balance and maneuverability as we walk. This study examined the impact of visual information salience on lateral balance…
Jonathan B. Dingwell, Anna C. Render, David M. Desmet, Joseph P. Cusumano
People rarely walk in straight lines. Instead, we make frequent turns or other maneuvers. Spatiotemporal parameters fundamentally characterize gait. For straight walking, these parameters are well-defined for that task of walking on a straight path. Generalizing these concepts to non-straight walking, however, is not…
Seyed-Saleh Hosseini-Yazdi
It is suggested that preferred walking speeds coincide with the minimum metabolic energy expenditure. Since the positive step work performed on the center of mass (COM) broadly represents walking energetics, at the preferred walking speed, the positive step work must also be minimized. Positive step work is exerted at…
Nury Nusdwinuringtyas, Tresia Fransiska, Peggy Sunarjo, Kevin Triangto + 1 more
In the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, it is essential to measure individual functional capacity, which could be evaluated through walking tests. Aside from the commonly used six minutes walking test (6MWT), four meter gait speed (4MGS) are widely used for its practicality. This study aimed to assess the…
Meghan E. Kazanski, Joseph P. Cusumano, Jonathan B. Dingwell
Walking humans often navigate complex, dynamically changing walking paths. To better understand falling risk, is critical that we first determine how older adults purposefully vary their steps in varying environments that challenge balance. Here, 20 young (21.7±2.6 yrs) and 18 older (71.6±6.0 yrs) healthy adults walked…
Dag Alnæs, Tobias Kaufmann, Andre F. Marquand, Stephen M. Smith + 1 more
The expanding behavioral repertoire of the developing brain during childhood and adolescence is shaped by complex brain-environment interactions and flavored by unique life experiences. The transition into young adulthood offer opportunities for adaptation and growth, but also increased susceptibility to environmental…