ReviewAmerican journal of preventive medicine2012
Financial incentives to promote active travel: an evidence review and economic framework.
Review in American journal of preventive medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Projecting the Influence of Global Warming on Physical Activity Patterns: a Systematic Review.Current obesity reports · 2020Pooled it
- Associations of Public Transportation Use With Cardiometabolic Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of epidemiology · 2019Pooled it
- Incentivising public transport use for physical activity gain: process evaluation of the COVID-19 disrupted trips4health randomised controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Trial
- Employers' views of promoting walking to work: a qualitative study.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2015Trial
- Sitting still while the world gets sicker: Rethinking physical inactivity as a public health emergency.BMC global and public health · 2026Review
- Beyond person-centered approaches: Integrating individual, sociodemographic and socio-spatial factors to better understand active and sustainable mobility.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2026Article
- Strategies to shift adolescents out of cars: a qualitative study among adolescents and parents.BMC public health · 2025Article
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- The role of current transport expenditure in mitigating the risk of modal shift during Covid-19 - Lessons from Polish cities.Case studies on transport policy · 2022Article
- Comparing the Relative Importance of Predictors of Intention to Use Bicycles.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Changing behaviour: an essential component of tackling health inequalities.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2021Article
- Effect of Group Contingency Type on Walking: Comparisons of Effectiveness and Cost Efficiency.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- The social and physical workplace environment and commute mode: A natural experimental study.Preventive medicine reports · 2020Article
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- Nudging to move: a scoping review of the use of choice architecture interventions to promote physical activity in the general population.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2019Article
- Between Privilege and Oppression: An Intersectional Analysis of Active Transportation Experiences Among Washington D.C. Area Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Changes in workplace car parking and commute mode: a natural experimental study.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2019Article
- Active Commuting Behaviours from High School to University in Chile: A Retrospective Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- The impact of financial incentives on physical activity in adults: a systematic review protocol.Systematic reviews · 2018Article
- Policies to Promote Active Travel: Evidence from Reviews of the Literature.Current environmental health reports · 2017Review
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Abstract
contextFinancial incentives, including taxes and subsidies, can be used to encourage behavior change. They are common in transport policy for tackling externalities associated with use of motor vehicles, and in public health for influencing alcohol consumption and smoking behaviors. Financial incentives also offer policymakers a compromise between "nudging," which may be insufficient for changing habitual behavior, and regulations that restrict individual choice. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION: The literature review identified studies published between January 1997 and January 2012 of financial incentives relating to any mode of travel in which the impact on active travel, physical activity, or obesity levels was reported. It encompassed macroenvironmental schemes, such as gasoline taxes, and microenvironmental schemes, such as employer-subsidized bicycles. Five relevant reviews and 20 primary studies (of which nine were not included in the reviews) were identified. EVIDENCE SYNTHESIS: The results show that more-robust evidence is required if policymakers are to maximize the health impact of fiscal policy relating to transport schemes of this kind.
conclusionsDrawing on a literature review and insights from the SLOTH (sleep, leisure, occupation, transportation, and home-based activities) time-budget model, this paper argues that financial incentives may have a larger role in promoting walking and cycling than is acknowledged generally.
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