Meghan Winters
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3931325 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Meghan Winters |
| NOMBRES | Meghan |
| APELLIDO | Winters |
| FIRMA | WINTERS M |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9932-0255 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 62 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 201 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 62 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Was the Covid-19 pandemic a ‘critical juncture’ for active transportation planning in Canada?
The sociality of walking
The lack of sociality – or social relationships – has consequences for health, especially for parents for whom raising a child takes a village. Walking has long been credited with promoting sociality. Yet the link between sociality and walking has received insufficient attention. To understand how walking supports sociality among parents in a Quebec context, we conducted a post-phenomenological study focusing on everyday walking. The experience o…
Urban vegetation and well‐being
As urbanisation continues to accelerate, urban green spaces are increasingly recognised as key elements for enhancing people's health and well‐being. However, most research has used vegetation metrics that may not capture the specific associations between different types of vegetation and different mental health outcomes. In this study, we investigate the cross‐sectional associations between residential vegetation exposure and individual well‐bei…
Evaluating the implementation of active transportation infrastructure during the pandemic
The impact of urban transportation on human health is a critical area of study in public health. The pandemic created a need to re-imagine urban public spaces and trial built environment interventions under expedited timelines. By expanding street space for active transportation during the pandemic, cities aimed to enable access to essential destinations and supported physical and mental health during physical distancing regulations through ‘stre…
Mapping change in cycling infrastructure across Canada
Using a national dataset, we detected an increase in cycling infrastructure in Canadian communities, with mobility and health implications for many equity-deserving population groups. The greatest increases, proportionally, in cycling infrastructure were seen in small- and medium-sized cities
Top pedestrian concerns in Canada mapped on WalkRollMap.org
Walking is a healthy, sustainable, and economical form of transportation or recreation. Yet in North America walking is not always accessible, safe, or comfortable. A challenge to creating quality pedestrian environments is lack of data on what barriers exist and how barriers vary across communities. Our goal is to characterize pedestrian barriers and concerns at the microscale level. We analyzed 2,588 reports of hazards, missing amenities, or in…
Evaluating regional variation in neighbourhood socioeconomic inequalities in motor vehicle injury collisions
Disadvantaged communities have higher rates of traffic injury. Our goal was to measure regional variation in the association between small-area socioeconomic deprivation and motor vehicle crashes resulting in injury within British Columbia, Canada. We analyzed road traffic injury crashes from universal auto insurance claims (2019-2023) across 16 urban regions of British Columbia, aggregated by census dissemination areas (DAs). We measured socioec…
Evaluating the protective effect of public open space on social connectedness
Community design has the potential to address urban isolation and loneliness at a population level, but limited research on the causal effects of the built environment constrains evidence-based action in cities. This study examined the effect of public open space on changes in social connectedness among adults (n = 665) during the COVID-19 pandemic, using geospatial data from OpenStreetMap and health survey data from three cities (Montréal, Saska…
Who has access to cycling infrastructure in Canada? A social equity analysis
Canadian cities have made significant investments in cycling infrastructure to support uptake in active transportation. Who has spatial access to supportive infrastructure is an important equity question: lack of access to safe infrastructure for cycling may limit who has an option to use a bicycle to meet their transportation needs (to access employment, educational, social, or other essential services) as well as who may achieve the physical an…
Negotiating connections, confinements, and neighbourhood places
Material, relational, subjective, psychological, and environmental dimensions matter for well-being. • Home and neighbourhood characteristics were central to older adults’ well-being. • Home comforts, technology, and neighbourhood amenities enhanced participants’ well-being. • Confinement in insufficient homes and compounding factors diminished participants’ well-being. • Some participants grew fatigued and participated less in their neighbourhoo…
Associations between gentrification, census tract-level socioeconomic status, and cycling infrastructure expansions in Montreal, Canada
Montreal's municipal cycling infrastructure programs did not exacerbate socioeconomic disparities in cycling infrastructure from 2011 to 2016 in CTs with pre-existing infrastructure. However, it is crucial to prioritize the implementation of cycling infrastructure in CTs with high populations of visible minorities, particularly in CTs where no cycling infrastructure currently exists
(Dis)connected by design? Using participatory citizen science to uncover environmental determinants of social connectedness for youth in under-resourced neighbourhoods
Our findings extend evidence on key environmental determinants of social connectedness for youth, while highlighting the potential of community design to support multiple dimensions of healthy social development. Additionally, this work demonstrates the resilience and agency of youth in under-resourced settings, and underscores the importance of honouring assets, co-production, and intergenerational planning when working to advance healthy, conne…
Imagining and implementing healthy city interventions
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities
This article makes the case that electric micromobilities (EMMs) are the site of a moral panic and employs the lens of mobility justice to explain it. Through analysis of scholarly and media discourse, interviews with, and social media content produced by, EMM riders (eriders), and the auto ethnographic experiences of the lead author as an electric unicycle rider in daily life, as a participant in online and offline 'erider' communities, and as a…
Gentrification, neighborhood socioeconomic factors and urban vegetation inequities
This study investigates the relationship between increasing urban vegetation and census tract-level green inequities, as well as the role of social indicators in this relationship. We analyzed the augmentation of greenspace and tree canopy in Montreal, Canada, between 2011 and 2017, and its effect on green inequities based on material deprivation, the percentage of visible minorities, and gentrification status using Poisson spatial random effect …
Developing urban biking typologies
Extensive research has been conducted exploring associations between built environment characteristics and biking. However, these approaches have often lacked the ability to understand the interactions of the built environment, population and bicycle ridership. To overcome these limitations, this study aimed to develop novel urban biking typologies using unsupervised machine learning methods. We conducted a retrospective analysis of travel survey…
Developing a national dataset of bicycle infrastructure for Canada using open data sources
High-quality and consistent cycling infrastructure data are needed to advance research into equity and safety and for planning active transportation. With recent growth in cycling and investments in cycling infrastructure, there are concerns that these investments have not been equitable across communities. There is no consistent and complete national dataset for cycling infrastructure in Canada. Our goal is to develop a national cycling infrastr…
Gentrification, perceptions of neighborhood change, and mental health in Montréal, Québec
While census-defined measures of gentrification are often used in research on gentrification and health, surveys can be used to better understand how residents perceive neighborhood change, and the implications for mental health. Whether or not gentrification affects mental health may depend on the extent to which an individual perceives changes in their neighborhood. Using health and map-based survey data, collected from 2020 to 2021, from the I…
Pandemic-time bike lanes in three large Canadian urban centres- differences in use and public perception by socio-demographic groups and geographical contexts
The temporal sequence between gentrification and cycling infrastructure expansions in Montreal, Canada
Increases in cycling infrastructure might be linked to gentrification. However, there is little empirical evidence investigating the existence and directionality of this possible relationship. This study examined the temporal sequence involved in the relation between gentrification and increases in the cycling infrastructure in Montreal, Canada. We analyzed changes in cycling infrastructure between 2006, 2011, and 2016, considering cyclist-only p…
I'm New to This
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift in long established participatory visual qualitative methods. Some researchers adapted photovoice- which traditionally happens in-person-and used technology to connect with participants referred to as 'digitally mediated photovoice'. Collective knowledge about best practices for digitally mediated photovoice to support and enhance research with older adults is in its infancy. Thus, to advance the field, we des…
Rethinking walkability and developing a conceptual definition of active living environments to guide research and practice
We believe that this broader conceptualization allows for a more comprehensive understanding of how built, natural, and social environments can contribute to improved health for all members of the population
We see each other from a distance”
Strategies that foster social connectedness over the longer term, need to prioritize the needs of older adults who face multiple barriers to equitable social participation
Spatial variation in bicycling risk based on crowdsourced safety data
Bicycling‐related injury data are difficult to obtain from official reports, which capture only about 20% of crashes and often lack coordinates, injury outcomes, and narratives needed for understanding where and why incidents occurred. Crowdsourced data on bicycling safety provides new opportunities for the study of bicycling injury and risk. Our goal was to quantify factors that influence the spatial variation in unsafe bicycling across a city, …
Mapping bicycling exposure and safety risk using Strava Metro
Overcoming concerns about bicycling safety is critical to increasing the health benefits of bicycling for transportation. While exposure measures are critical for monitoring and understanding bike safety, lack of spatially and temporally detailed bike counts makes it challenging to conduct robust bicycling safety studies. Crowdsourced data from smartphone apps like Strava provide counts for nearly all individual road and trail sections with 1-min…
Benches become like porches
Built Environment Influences on Healthy Transportation Choices
Freedom from the station
Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment
A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility
Mapping ridership using crowdsourced cycling data
Cycling volumes are necessary to understand what influences ridership and are essential for safety studies. Traditional methods of data collection are expensive, time consuming, and lack spatial and temporal detail. New sources have emerged as a result of crowdsourced data from fitness apps, allowing cyclists to track routes using GPS enabled cell phones. Our goal is to determine if crowdsourced data from fitness apps data can be used to quantify…
We see each other from a distance”
Strategies that foster social connectedness over the longer term, need to prioritize the needs of older adults who face multiple barriers to equitable social participation
Route Infrastructure and the Risk of Injuries to Bicyclists
Objectives. We compared cycling injury risks of 14 route types and other route infrastructure features. Methods. We recruited 690 city residents injured while cycling in Toronto or Vancouver, Canada. A case-crossover design compared route infrastructure at each injury site to that of a randomly selected control site from the same trip. Results. Of 14 route types, cycle tracks had the lowest risk (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.11; 95% confidence in…
Covid-19 street reallocation in mid-sized Canadian cities
In this early response phase, some cities acted swiftly even in the context of massive uncertainties. As cities move toward recovery and resilience, they should leverage early learnings as they act to create more permanent solutions that support safe and equitable mobility
Riding alone and together
Safe Cycling
Safety perceptions of older adults on an urban greenway
and discussion: We conducted thematic analysis to illuminate older adults' experiences across three safety domains: personal safety, traffic safety, and security. Built environment features such as benches, paving, road markings, and natural foliage buffers intersected with elements of the social environment to influence older adults' perceived safety. While the greenway supported active transportation, leisure, and social engagement for many old…
It makes your life worthwhile. It gives you a purpose in living’
The World Health Organization claims that mobility is vital to healthy ageing and is the best guarantee of older adults being able to cope and remain in their homes and communities. Mobility enables older adults to maintain their physical health, independence and participation in society. In general, mobility is examined objectively, from a quantitative perspective where mobility is measured as physical movement ( e.g. physical activity) and/or t…
Causally speaking
The temporal sequence between gentrification and cycling infrastructure expansions in Montreal, Canada
Increases in cycling infrastructure might be linked to gentrification. However, there is little empirical evidence investigating the existence and directionality of this possible relationship. This study examined the temporal sequence involved in the relation between gentrification and increases in the cycling infrastructure in Montreal, Canada. We analyzed changes in cycling infrastructure between 2006, 2011, and 2016, considering cyclist-only p…
I'm New to This
The COVID-19 pandemic forced a shift in long established participatory visual qualitative methods. Some researchers adapted photovoice- which traditionally happens in-person-and used technology to connect with participants referred to as 'digitally mediated photovoice'. Collective knowledge about best practices for digitally mediated photovoice to support and enhance research with older adults is in its infancy. Thus, to advance the field, we des…
Who were these bike lanes built for? Social-spatial inequities in Vancouver's bikeways, 2001–2016
Moral Panic and Electric Micromobilities
This article makes the case that electric micromobilities (EMMs) are the site of a moral panic and employs the lens of mobility justice to explain it. Through analysis of scholarly and media discourse, interviews with, and social media content produced by, EMM riders (eriders), and the auto ethnographic experiences of the lead author as an electric unicycle rider in daily life, as a participant in online and offline 'erider' communities, and as a…
From advocacy to acceptance
Many North American cities are building bicycling infrastructure. Lively discussions on social media, where people passionately support or reject bicycling infrastructure projects, provide a unique data set on attitudes towards bicycling infrastructure. Our goal is to analyse social media posts in Edmonton and Victoria, Canada as new bike infrastructure was implemented to understand the thematic and social elements of the conversation and how the…
Promoting Crowdsourcing for Urban Research
People generate massive volumes of data on the Internet about cities. Researchers may engage these crowds to fill data gaps and better understand and inform planning decisions. Crowdsourced tools for data collection must be supported by outreach; however, researchers typically have limited experience with marketing and promotion. Our goal is to provide guidance on effective promotion strategies. We evaluated promotion efforts for BikeMaps.org, a …
Exposure-based Traffic Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel in British Columbia
Spatial variation in bicycling risk based on crowdsourced safety data
Bicycling‐related injury data are difficult to obtain from official reports, which capture only about 20% of crashes and often lack coordinates, injury outcomes, and narratives needed for understanding where and why incidents occurred. Crowdsourced data on bicycling safety provides new opportunities for the study of bicycling injury and risk. Our goal was to quantify factors that influence the spatial variation in unsafe bicycling across a city, …
Successes and failures of built environment interventions
Correcting Bias in Crowdsourced Data to Map Bicycle Ridership of All Bicyclists
Traditional methods of counting bicyclists are resource-intensive and generate data with sparse spatial and temporal detail. Previous research suggests big data from crowdsourced fitness apps offer a new source of bicycling data with high spatial and temporal resolution. However, crowdsourced bicycling data are biased as they oversample recreational riders. Our goals are to quantify geographical variables, which can help in correcting bias in cro…
Epidemiology of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in BC during the Introduction of Conjugated Pneumococcal Vaccine
Built Environment Influences on Healthy Transportation Choices
Motivators and deterrents of bicycling
Personal and trip characteristics associated with safety equipment use by injured adult bicyclists
In two of Canada's largest cities, helmets were the most widely used safety equipment. Measures to increase use of visibility aids on both daytime and night-time cycling trips may help prevent crashes
Route Infrastructure and the Risk of Injuries to Bicyclists
Objectives. We compared cycling injury risks of 14 route types and other route infrastructure features. Methods. We recruited 690 city residents injured while cycling in Toronto or Vancouver, Canada. A case-crossover design compared route infrastructure at each injury site to that of a randomly selected control site from the same trip. Results. Of 14 route types, cycle tracks had the lowest risk (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.11; 95% confidence in…
Safe Cycling
Sustained impact of community-based physical activity interventions
To sustain and maximize the impact of community-based public health interventions we propose the integration of elements from three domains of research that acknowledge the interplay between social, environmental and poilitical systems of influence. We emphasize that a number of key factors determine whether evidence from public health interventions in school and built environment settings is applied in practice and policy sectors. These include …
A framework for stakeholder identification in concept mapping and health research
Stakeholders related to older adult mobility and the built environment span many disciplines and realms of practice. Researchers studying this issue may use the detailed stakeholder framework process we present to identify participants for future projects. Health researchers pursuing stakeholder-based projects in other contexts are encouraged to incorporate this process of stakeholder identification and categorization to ensure systematic conside…
Exposure-based Traffic Crash Injury Rates by Mode of Travel in British Columbia
Generating GPS activity spaces that shed light upon the mobility habits of older adults
BACKGROUND: Measuring mobility is critical for understanding neighborhood influences on older adults' health and functioning. Global Positioning Systems (GPS) may represent an important opportunity to measure, describe, and compare mobility patterns in older adults. METHODS: We generated three types of activity spaces (Standard Deviation Ellipse, Minimum Convex Polygon, Daily Path Area) using GPS data from 95 older adults in Vancouver, Canada. Ca…
Bicycling crash circumstances vary by route type
These data supplement our previous analyses of relative risks by route type by indicating the types of crashes that occur on each route type. This information can guide municipal engineers and planners towards improvements that would make cycling safer
Evaluating the impact of environmental interventions across 2 countries
There are scientific and practical challenges in evaluating PBSP. Methodological challenges included: appropriate sample recruitment, exchangeability of treatment and control groups, controlling unmeasured confounding, and specifying exposure. Practical challenges arise in the evaluation of environmental interventions such as a PBSP: one of the companies involved filed for bankruptcy, a Hurricane devastated New York City, and one PBSP was not imp…
Older adults’ outdoor walking and the built environment
Neighbourhood design may be one avenue whereby physical activity levels of older people can be enhanced through outdoor walking, with benefit across socioeconomic strata
Where do they go and how do they get there? Older adults' travel behaviour in a highly walkable environment
Bicycling crashes on streetcar (tram) or train tracks
Given our results, prevention efforts might be directed at individual knowledge, bicycle tires, or route design, but their potential for success is likely to differ. Although it may be possible to reach a broader audience with continued advice about how to avoid track crashes, the persistence and frequency of these crashes and their unpredictable circumstances indicates that other solutions are needed. Using tires wider than streetcar or train fl…
Th International Medical Geography Symposium special collection
Mapping ridership using crowdsourced cycling data
Cycling volumes are necessary to understand what influences ridership and are essential for safety studies. Traditional methods of data collection are expensive, time consuming, and lack spatial and temporal detail. New sources have emerged as a result of crowdsourced data from fitness apps, allowing cyclists to track routes using GPS enabled cell phones. Our goal is to determine if crowdsourced data from fitness apps data can be used to quantify…
Benches become like porches
Developing a comprehensive measure of mobility
MOVES is a holistic measure of mobility for characterizing older adult mobility across populations. Future work should examine individual or neighborhood predictors of MOVES and its relationship to broader health outcomes. MOVES holds utility for research, surveillance, evaluation, and interventions around the broad factors influencing mobility in older adults
Promoting Crowdsourcing for Urban Research
People generate massive volumes of data on the Internet about cities. Researchers may engage these crowds to fill data gaps and better understand and inform planning decisions. Crowdsourced tools for data collection must be supported by outreach; however, researchers typically have limited experience with marketing and promotion. Our goal is to provide guidance on effective promotion strategies. We evaluated promotion efforts for BikeMaps.org, a …
A grounded visualization approach to explore sociospatial and temporal complexities of older adults' mobility
Who is in the near market for bicycle sharing? Identifying current, potential, and unlikely users of a public bicycle share program in Vancouver, Canada
Findings can help inform targeted marketing and outreach to increase public bicycle share uptake in the population
Freedom from the station
Interact
INTERACT aims to advance the evidence base on population health intervention research and address challenges related to big data, knowledge mobilization and engagement, ethics, and causality. We will collect ~ 100 TB of sensor data from participants over 5 years. We will address these challenges using interdisciplinary partnerships, training of highly qualified personnel, and modern methodologies for using sensor-based data
The built environment and active transportation safety in children and youth
This program of research will identify the built environment associated with active transportation safety and form an evidence base from which municipalities can draw information to support change. Our team's national scope will be invaluable in providing information regarding the variability in built environment characteristics and is vital to producing evidence-based recommendations that will increase safe active transportation
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