Chia-Yuan Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chia-Yuan Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chia-Yuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1545-0162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring the Role of Walkability and Access in Older Adults’ Use of Third Places
This study explores the relationships between environmental perceptions, attitudes toward community participation, and third place engagement among older adults, using survey data from 638 individuals aged 65 and older residing in Orlando, Florida. The analysis focuses on differences by living arrangement. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were used to examine third place engagement as a continuous outcome, with analyses stratified b…
The Moderate Effects of Access to Play Spaces on Adolescents’ Physical Activity
This cross-sectional study explored whether the relationship between adolescents’ physical activity and related factors (such as personal and social factors, and parental safety concern) differed according to adolescents’ levels of access to play spaces. Data from Wave 3 of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) national longitudinal study, a nationally representative sample of 5212 adolescents aged 17–18 years, was analyzed. Key study variables include…
Access to Third Places: Key Determinants of Physical and Social Well-Being in Older Adults
This study aimed to examine how access to and engagement with third places influence leisure-time physical activity and social capital among older adults. This study analyzed data from an online survey of 638 older adults aged 65 and above residing in Orlando, Florida, recruited through community collaborations, social media campaigns, and public outreach. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression was used to examine the relationships between third…
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Leisure-Time Physical Activity for Older Adults
This study examines reciprocal relationships between neighborhood social cohesion and leisure-time physical activity among older adults (65 years and older) and compares the findings with those of the general adult population (18 years and older). Using data from the 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (N = 7714 older adults and 34,412 general adults), a cross-sectional analysis was conducted with structural equation modeling in Mplus 7.…
Neighborhood Walkability, Third Place Engagement, and Their Impact on Physical Activity and Social Capital for Older Adults Living Alone and With Others
This study examines how neighborhood walkability, third place engagement, and socio-demographic characteristics affect leisure-time physical activity and social capital among older adults. It also investigates how these relationships differ between those living alone and those living with others. Data for this study were collected via an online survey administered to 638 older adults, aged 65 and above, residing in Orlando, Florida. Ordinary leas…
Barriers to Third-Place Access for Older Adults: Impacts on Physical Activity and Social Capital
Unlocking Trends: Socio-Demographic Insights into Bike Sharing from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey
The implementation of bike-sharing systems represents a novel strategy aimed at enhancing urban mobility by offering shared bicycle services to improve accessibility and user convenience. Nevertheless, there has been a limited exploration into the user demographics of bike-sharing programs on a national scale. This study investigates the socio-demographic characteristics of bike-sharing system users, leveraging the 2017 National Household Travel …
Influences of Perceived Built Environments and Personal Attitudes Toward Walking to the Grocery Store
Encouraging walking to grocery stores can enhance environmental sustainability by reducing vehicle emissions and easing traffic congestion. While research has largely focused on measurable factors like distance and physical accessibility, less attention has been paid to how perceived built environments and personal attitudes affect walking behavior. This study delves into how socio-demographic traits, social influences, and perceived built enviro…
The impacts of visual street environments on obesity: The mediating role of walking behaviors
Making space and building social capital: Unpacking the relationships between community center use and social capital in urban regenerated neighborhoods in Seoul, Korea
Effects of Multifaceted Determinants on Individual Stress: The Mediating Role of Social Capital
Stress substantially results in various negative health outcomes. While there is a nexus between social capital and individual stress, previous studies have primarily explored the direct relationship between them. Social capital may potentially have an indirect effect on perceived stress via social networking pathways that provide accessible resources. This study addresses this research gap by exploring the mediating effect of social capital for …
The impact of built environments on pedestrian safety around bus stops
Pedestrian safety around transit stops plays an important role in promoting active travel to and from public transit. This study examined the impacts of built environments in several perspectives (e.g., sidewalk, street connectivity, road type, and land use) on pedestrian–vehicle crashes with different levels of injury severity around bus stops in Austin, Texas, using negative binomial models. The results showed that transit areas with higher lev…
Before-and-after analysis of property value around SunRail stations in Orlando, FL
This study explored the changes in housing values before-and-after the several stages of transit investments of SunRail stations in Orlando, FL by using a pre-post and intervention-control design. During the construction period, most of the stations showed no statistically significant differences in housing value changes. For the operation period, houses in the 1-mile buffers around stations displayed lower value increases than those in the adjac…
Who believes and why they believe: Individual perception of public housing and housing price depreciation
From Walkable Communities to Active Lifestyles: Exploring Causal Pathways through a Case Study in Austin, Texas
Walkable communities have been associated with improved physical activity, but the underlying causal pathways and related social benefits are understudied. This retrospective “pre–post” survey study ( N = 446) examined “how” moving into a walkable community in Austin, Texas, affected residents’ neighborhood walking, social interactions, and neighborhood cohesion using structural equation modeling. Results showed direct and indirect (mediated by e…
Social Vulnerability Index and obesity: An empirical study in the US
Neighborhood walkability for subsidized households: Revisiting neighborhood environments of Housing Choice Voucher and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit households
Income and Racial Disparity and the Role of the Built Environment in Pedestrian Injuries
This study examined the impacts of built environments on pedestrian-vehicle crashes with different levels of severity and the income and racial disparities related to different crash injuries in Austin, Texas. Arterial roads and commercial areas were associated with more injurious crashes. The presence of schools had a positive association with both injurious and no-injury crashes but only in areas with high percentages of nonwhites and poverty. …
Voter support for environmental bond referenda
Local Variations in the Impacts of Built Environments on Traffic Safety
This study examined the influence of built environments on crashes with different levels of injury severity, and employed Geographically Weighted Negative Binomial Regressions to test whether these relationships varied across different neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. The results showed that high-speed roads produced more total and fatal crashes, and their influence was stronger in downtown areas than in peripheral regions. Commercial and office a…
Planning for Safe Schools: Impacts of School Siting and Surrounding Environments on Traffic Safety
This study explores the impacts of school siting and surrounding built environments on rates of motorist and pedestrian crashes around public schools in the Austin Independent School District, Texas, by using log-linear regressions. The results show that a higher sidewalk coverage and a higher percentage of local roads reduce pedestrian crashes around schools, while higher percentages of highways and commercial uses and higher transit stop densit…
Decreasing disability in the 21st century: The future effects of controlling six fatal and nonfatal conditions
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effects of reducing fatal and nonfatal health conditions on the number of functionally limited older Americans in the coming decades. METHODS: Data from the 1990 census and the Longitudinal Study of Aging were used to project the number of functionally limited older Americans from 2001 to 2049, assuming 1% biennial reductions in five conditions that shorten life expectancy (coronary artery disease, stroke, canc…
Decreasing disability in the 21st century: The future effects of controlling six fatal and nonfatal conditions
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effects of reducing fatal and nonfatal health conditions on the number of functionally limited older Americans in the coming decades. METHODS: Data from the 1990 census and the Longitudinal Study of Aging were used to project the number of functionally limited older Americans from 2001 to 2049, assuming 1% biennial reductions in five conditions that shorten life expectancy (coronary artery disease, stroke, canc…
The impacts of visual street environments on obesity: The mediating role of walking behaviors
Planning for Safe Schools: Impacts of School Siting and Surrounding Environments on Traffic Safety
This study explores the impacts of school siting and surrounding built environments on rates of motorist and pedestrian crashes around public schools in the Austin Independent School District, Texas, by using log-linear regressions. The results show that a higher sidewalk coverage and a higher percentage of local roads reduce pedestrian crashes around schools, while higher percentages of highways and commercial uses and higher transit stop densit…
Neighborhood Walkability, Third Place Engagement, and Their Impact on Physical Activity and Social Capital for Older Adults Living Alone and With Others
This study examines how neighborhood walkability, third place engagement, and socio-demographic characteristics affect leisure-time physical activity and social capital among older adults. It also investigates how these relationships differ between those living alone and those living with others. Data for this study were collected via an online survey administered to 638 older adults, aged 65 and above, residing in Orlando, Florida. Ordinary leas…
Making space and building social capital: Unpacking the relationships between community center use and social capital in urban regenerated neighborhoods in Seoul, Korea
Local Variations in the Impacts of Built Environments on Traffic Safety
This study examined the influence of built environments on crashes with different levels of injury severity, and employed Geographically Weighted Negative Binomial Regressions to test whether these relationships varied across different neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. The results showed that high-speed roads produced more total and fatal crashes, and their influence was stronger in downtown areas than in peripheral regions. Commercial and office a…
Who believes and why they believe: Individual perception of public housing and housing price depreciation
From Walkable Communities to Active Lifestyles: Exploring Causal Pathways through a Case Study in Austin, Texas
Walkable communities have been associated with improved physical activity, but the underlying causal pathways and related social benefits are understudied. This retrospective “pre–post” survey study ( N = 446) examined “how” moving into a walkable community in Austin, Texas, affected residents’ neighborhood walking, social interactions, and neighborhood cohesion using structural equation modeling. Results showed direct and indirect (mediated by e…
Neighborhood walkability for subsidized households: Revisiting neighborhood environments of Housing Choice Voucher and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit households
The impact of built environments on pedestrian safety around bus stops
Pedestrian safety around transit stops plays an important role in promoting active travel to and from public transit. This study examined the impacts of built environments in several perspectives (e.g., sidewalk, street connectivity, road type, and land use) on pedestrian–vehicle crashes with different levels of injury severity around bus stops in Austin, Texas, using negative binomial models. The results showed that transit areas with higher lev…
Income and Racial Disparity and the Role of the Built Environment in Pedestrian Injuries
This study examined the impacts of built environments on pedestrian-vehicle crashes with different levels of severity and the income and racial disparities related to different crash injuries in Austin, Texas. Arterial roads and commercial areas were associated with more injurious crashes. The presence of schools had a positive association with both injurious and no-injury crashes but only in areas with high percentages of nonwhites and poverty. …
Voter support for environmental bond referenda
Decreasing disability in the 21st century: The future effects of controlling six fatal and nonfatal conditions
OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effects of reducing fatal and nonfatal health conditions on the number of functionally limited older Americans in the coming decades. METHODS: Data from the 1990 census and the Longitudinal Study of Aging were used to project the number of functionally limited older Americans from 2001 to 2049, assuming 1% biennial reductions in five conditions that shorten life expectancy (coronary artery disease, stroke, canc…
Planning for Safe Schools: Impacts of School Siting and Surrounding Environments on Traffic Safety
This study explores the impacts of school siting and surrounding built environments on rates of motorist and pedestrian crashes around public schools in the Austin Independent School District, Texas, by using log-linear regressions. The results show that a higher sidewalk coverage and a higher percentage of local roads reduce pedestrian crashes around schools, while higher percentages of highways and commercial uses and higher transit stop densit…
Local Variations in the Impacts of Built Environments on Traffic Safety
This study examined the influence of built environments on crashes with different levels of injury severity, and employed Geographically Weighted Negative Binomial Regressions to test whether these relationships varied across different neighborhoods in Austin, Texas. The results showed that high-speed roads produced more total and fatal crashes, and their influence was stronger in downtown areas than in peripheral regions. Commercial and office a…
Income and Racial Disparity and the Role of the Built Environment in Pedestrian Injuries
This study examined the impacts of built environments on pedestrian-vehicle crashes with different levels of severity and the income and racial disparities related to different crash injuries in Austin, Texas. Arterial roads and commercial areas were associated with more injurious crashes. The presence of schools had a positive association with both injurious and no-injury crashes but only in areas with high percentages of nonwhites and poverty. …
Voter support for environmental bond referenda
Neighborhood walkability for subsidized households: Revisiting neighborhood environments of Housing Choice Voucher and Low-Income Housing Tax Credit households
From Walkable Communities to Active Lifestyles: Exploring Causal Pathways through a Case Study in Austin, Texas
Walkable communities have been associated with improved physical activity, but the underlying causal pathways and related social benefits are understudied. This retrospective “pre–post” survey study ( N = 446) examined “how” moving into a walkable community in Austin, Texas, affected residents’ neighborhood walking, social interactions, and neighborhood cohesion using structural equation modeling. Results showed direct and indirect (mediated by e…
Social Vulnerability Index and obesity: An empirical study in the US
Before-and-after analysis of property value around SunRail stations in Orlando, FL
This study explored the changes in housing values before-and-after the several stages of transit investments of SunRail stations in Orlando, FL by using a pre-post and intervention-control design. During the construction period, most of the stations showed no statistically significant differences in housing value changes. For the operation period, houses in the 1-mile buffers around stations displayed lower value increases than those in the adjac…
Who believes and why they believe: Individual perception of public housing and housing price depreciation
Effects of Multifaceted Determinants on Individual Stress: The Mediating Role of Social Capital
Stress substantially results in various negative health outcomes. While there is a nexus between social capital and individual stress, previous studies have primarily explored the direct relationship between them. Social capital may potentially have an indirect effect on perceived stress via social networking pathways that provide accessible resources. This study addresses this research gap by exploring the mediating effect of social capital for …
The impact of built environments on pedestrian safety around bus stops
Pedestrian safety around transit stops plays an important role in promoting active travel to and from public transit. This study examined the impacts of built environments in several perspectives (e.g., sidewalk, street connectivity, road type, and land use) on pedestrian–vehicle crashes with different levels of injury severity around bus stops in Austin, Texas, using negative binomial models. The results showed that transit areas with higher lev…
The impacts of visual street environments on obesity: The mediating role of walking behaviors
Making space and building social capital: Unpacking the relationships between community center use and social capital in urban regenerated neighborhoods in Seoul, Korea
Unlocking Trends: Socio-Demographic Insights into Bike Sharing from the 2017 National Household Travel Survey
The implementation of bike-sharing systems represents a novel strategy aimed at enhancing urban mobility by offering shared bicycle services to improve accessibility and user convenience. Nevertheless, there has been a limited exploration into the user demographics of bike-sharing programs on a national scale. This study investigates the socio-demographic characteristics of bike-sharing system users, leveraging the 2017 National Household Travel …
Influences of Perceived Built Environments and Personal Attitudes Toward Walking to the Grocery Store
Encouraging walking to grocery stores can enhance environmental sustainability by reducing vehicle emissions and easing traffic congestion. While research has largely focused on measurable factors like distance and physical accessibility, less attention has been paid to how perceived built environments and personal attitudes affect walking behavior. This study delves into how socio-demographic traits, social influences, and perceived built enviro…
Access to Third Places: Key Determinants of Physical and Social Well-Being in Older Adults
This study aimed to examine how access to and engagement with third places influence leisure-time physical activity and social capital among older adults. This study analyzed data from an online survey of 638 older adults aged 65 and above residing in Orlando, Florida, recruited through community collaborations, social media campaigns, and public outreach. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression was used to examine the relationships between third…
The Reciprocal Relationship Between Neighborhood Social Cohesion and Leisure-Time Physical Activity for Older Adults
This study examines reciprocal relationships between neighborhood social cohesion and leisure-time physical activity among older adults (65 years and older) and compares the findings with those of the general adult population (18 years and older). Using data from the 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) (N = 7714 older adults and 34,412 general adults), a cross-sectional analysis was conducted with structural equation modeling in Mplus 7.…
Neighborhood Walkability, Third Place Engagement, and Their Impact on Physical Activity and Social Capital for Older Adults Living Alone and With Others
This study examines how neighborhood walkability, third place engagement, and socio-demographic characteristics affect leisure-time physical activity and social capital among older adults. It also investigates how these relationships differ between those living alone and those living with others. Data for this study were collected via an online survey administered to 638 older adults, aged 65 and above, residing in Orlando, Florida. Ordinary leas…
Barriers to Third-Place Access for Older Adults: Impacts on Physical Activity and Social Capital
Exploring the Role of Walkability and Access in Older Adults’ Use of Third Places
This study explores the relationships between environmental perceptions, attitudes toward community participation, and third place engagement among older adults, using survey data from 638 individuals aged 65 and older residing in Orlando, Florida. The analysis focuses on differences by living arrangement. Ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models were used to examine third place engagement as a continuous outcome, with analyses stratified b…
The Moderate Effects of Access to Play Spaces on Adolescents’ Physical Activity
This cross-sectional study explored whether the relationship between adolescents’ physical activity and related factors (such as personal and social factors, and parental safety concern) differed according to adolescents’ levels of access to play spaces. Data from Wave 3 of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) national longitudinal study, a nationally representative sample of 5212 adolescents aged 17–18 years, was analyzed. Key study variables include…
Urban Transport and Accessibility (16 works) · Geography (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Engineering (7 works) · Built environment (6 works) · Environmental health (6 works)