ArticlePreventive medicine2012
Is active travel associated with greater physical activity? The contribution of commuting and non-commuting active travel to total physical activity in adults.
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- Active Commuting and Depression Symptoms in Adults: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
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- The Smart City Active Mobile Phone Intervention (SCAMPI) study to promote physical activity through active transportation in healthy adults: a study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2018Trial
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- Understanding how and why travel mode changes: analysis of longitudinal qualitative interviews.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
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- Distinct patterns of adult transport-related physical activity (TRPA) behaviour exist independent of the TRPA behaviours of childhood: the childhood determinants of adult health study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Article
- Gender differences in active travel in major cities across the world.Transportation · 2023Article
- Street Experiments and COVID-19: Challenges, Responses and Systemic Change.Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie = Journal of economic and social geography = Revue de geographie economique et humaine = Zeitschrift fur okonomische und soziale Geographie = Revista de geografia economica y social · 2023Article
- Application of machine learning to predict transport modes from GPS, accelerometer, and heart rate data.International journal of health geographics · 2022Article
- Active commuting, commuting modes and the risk of diabetes: 14-year follow-up data from the Hisayama study.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2022Article
- Active Commuting to University Is Positively Associated with Physical Activity and Perceived Fitness.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the basic psychological needs satisfaction in active commuting to and from school (BPNS-ACS) scale in Polish students.Journal of mother and child · 2022Article
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backgroundTo complement findings that active travel reduces the risk of morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases, an understanding of the mechanisms through which active travel may lead to improved health is required. PURPOSE: The aim of this study is to examine the descriptive epidemiology of all active travel and its associations with recreational and total physical activity in a sample of adults in the UK.
methodsIn April 2010, data were collected from 3516 adults as part of the baseline survey for the iConnect study in the UK. Travel and recreational physical activity were assessed using detailed seven-day recall instruments. Linear regression analyses, controlling for demographic characteristics, examined associations between active travel, defined as any walking and cycling for transport, and recreational and total physical activity.
results65% of respondents (mean age 50.5 years) reported some form of active travel, accumulating an average of 195 min/week (standard deviation=188.6). There were no differences in the recreational physical activity levels of respondents by travel mode category. Adults who used active travel did however report significantly higher total physical activity than those who did not.
conclusionsSubstantial physical activity can be accumulated through active travel which also contributes to greater total physical activity.
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