ReviewPreventive medicine reports2018
Impact of new rapid transit on physical activity: A meta-analysis.
Review in Preventive medicine reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Impact of structural-level environmental interventions on physical activity: a systematic review.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2023Pooled it
- Evidence on the effectiveness and equity of population-based policies to reduce the burden of type 2 diabetes: a narrative review.Diabetologia · 2025Review
- Gender differences in the subjective wellbeing of the older adults and the determinant factors: a case study of Nanjing.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Public transit stop density is associated with walking for exercise among a national sample of older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2023Article
- Effects of an urban cable car intervention on physical activity: the TrUST natural experiment in Bogotá, Colombia.The Lancet. Global health · 2023Article
- Trading-Off Transit and Non-Transit Physical Activity among Older People: Evidence from Longitudinal Accelerometer Data of a Natural Experiment Study.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Impact of a Light Rail Transit Line on Physical Activity: Findings from the Longitudinal Travel Assessment and Community (TRAC) Study.Journal of transport & health · 2022Article
- Contextual factors influencing the urban mobility infrastructure interventions and policies for older adults in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review.BMC public health · 2022Review
- The TROLLEY Study: assessing travel, health, and equity impacts of a new light rail transit investment during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Treating two pandemics for the price of one: Chronic and infectious disease impacts of the built and natural environment.Sustainable cities and society · 2021Article
- Methods to Address Self-Selection and Reverse Causation in Studies of Neighborhood Environments and Brain Health.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Metro and elderly health in Hong Kong: protocol for a natural experiment study in a high-density city.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Moving Toward Physical Activity Targets by Walking to Transit: National Household Transportation Survey, 2001-2017.American journal of preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Intention to use light-rail transit in Houston, Texas, United States: Findings from the Travel-Related Activity in Neighborhoods study.International journal of sustainable transportation · 2020Article
- Beyond the bus stop: where transit users walk.Journal of transport & health · 2019Article
- The Moving to Health (M2H) approach to natural experiment research: A paradigm shift for studies on built environment and health.SSM - population health · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
Authors and funding
5 authors.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
New rapid transit investments have been motivated by environmental, economic, and health benefits. Given transit's potential to increase active travel, recent research leverages transit changes for natural experiment studies to examine physical activity outcomes. We aimed to quantify the association size, critically examine existing literature, and make recommendations for future studies to advance research and policies on active travel, transportation, and physical activity. Studies of physical activity impacts following transit interventions were systematically reviewed using seven health and transport databases (May-July 2017). Two investigators extracted data on sample size, intervention, pre- and post-intervention physical activity, and relevant measurement information. Inconsistency of results and estimated overall mean physical activity change post-intervention were assessed. Forest plots were created from physical activity change in each study using a general variance-based random effects model. Of 18 peer-reviewed articles examining health behaviors, 15 addressed physical activity and five were natural experiment studies with pre- and post- intervention measurements. Studies varied by intervention, duration, outcome measurement, sampling location, and spatial method. Q (201) and I
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