Environmental determinants of active travel in youth
A review and framework for future research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23324635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenna Panter (0000-0001-8870-718X, University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Jenna R Panter, Andy Jones (0000-0002-3130-9313, University of East Anglia), Andrew P Jones (0000-0002-8051-4583), Esther Van Sluijs (0000-0001-9141-9082, Medical Research Council), Esther MF van Sluijs |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 2008-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-5868 • E-ISSN: 1479-5868 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1186/1479-5868-5-34 |
| PMID | 18573196 |
| PMCID | PMC2483993 |
| OpenAlex | W2115869163 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 118 |
| References cited | 28 |
BACKGROUND: Many youth fail to meet the recommended guidelines for physical activity. Walking and cycling, forms of active travel, have the potential to contribute significantly towards overall physical activity levels. Recent research examining the associations between physical activity and the environment has shown that environmental factors play a role in determining behaviour in children and adolescents. However, links between the environment and active travel have received less attention. METHODS: Twenty four studies were identified which examined the associations between the environment (perceived or objectively measured) and active travel among youth aged 5-18 years. Findings were categorised according to the location of the environmental measure examined; attributes of the neighbourhood, destination and the route between home and destination. RESULTS: Results from the reviewed studies indicated that youth active travel is positively associated with social interactions, facilities to assist active travel and urban form in the neighbourhood as well as shorter route length and road safety en-route. A conceptual framework is presented which highlights the associations between active travel behaviours and environmental factors, drawing upon both existing and hypothesised relationships. CONCLUSION: We provide a review of the available literature and present a novel theoretical framework that integrates the environment into the wider decision making process around travel choices for children and adolescents. Further work should explore associations where gaps in understanding have been identified, and account for the main moderators of behaviour so hypothesised associations can be confirmed.
Active living · Behavioural sciences · Built environment · Conceptual framework · Environmental health · Level design · Neighbourhood (mathematics) · Physical activity · Poison control · Sociology · Transport engineering · Travel behavior · Applied Psychology · Computer Science · Ecology · Engineering · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Older Adults Driving Studies · Psychology · Traffic and Road Safety · Urban Transport and Accessibility
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The Moderating Effect of Distance on Features of the Built Environment and Active School Transport
Australian children's independent mobility levels
Outdoor public recreation spaces and social connectedness among adolescents
Rethinking passive transport
Changes in the perceived neighborhood environment in relation to changes in physical activity
The influence of external factors on children's travel mode
Active Transportation Environments Surrounding Canadian Schools
Too Far to Walk or Bike
The association between the parental perception of the physical neighborhood environment and children’s location-specific physical activity
Population Approaches to Improve Diet, Physical Activity, and Smoking Habits
Free Range Kids? Using GPS-Derived Activity Spaces to Examine Children’s Neighborhood Activity and Mobility
Independent Mobility and Mode Choice for School Transportation
Associations of children's independent mobility and active travel with physical activity, sedentary behaviour and weight status
Neighborhood, Route, and School Environments and Children's Active Commuting
Encouraging Walking for Transport and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents
Neighborhood Environment and Physical Activity Among Youth
GIS measured environmental correlates of active school transport
Understanding child-friendly commuting
How do adolescents experience the decision-making process on travel mode choice?
Effects of a school-based intervention on active commuting to school and health-related fitness
Correlates of Active Commuting to School among Portuguese Adolescents
Parental perceived neighborhood attributes
Neighborhood educational disparities in active commuting among women
Factors influencing mode of transport in older adolescents
Objectively measured physical activity in population-representative parent-child pairs
Validating the Perceived Active School Travel Enablers and Barriers–Parent (Pasteb–P) Questionnaire to Support Intervention Programming and Research
Understanding child and parent perceptions of barriers influencing children’s active school travel
Neighborhood green spaces, facilities and population density as predictors of activity participation among 8-year-olds
Changes in Active Commuting to School in Czech Adolescents in Different Types of Built Environment across a 10-Year Period
Mode shifting in school travel mode
Children’s Experiences of Their Journey to School
Strategies to shift adolescents out of cars
Associations of parents’ and adolescents’ active travel behavior across various destinations – a sex/gender analysis
A Conceptual Framework for Modelling Safe Walking and Cycling Routes to High Schools
Is the Grass Always Greener in Suburban Neighborhoods? Outdoors Play in Suburban and Inner-City Neighborhoods
Active School Transport among Children from Canada, Colombia, Finland, South Africa, and the United States
Individual, Social and Environmental Correlates of Active School Travel among Adolescents in India
Active Living
Children’s Active School Travel
Development of a measurement approach to assess time children participate in organized sport, active travel, outdoor active play, and curriculum-based physical activity
Longitudinal associations between perceptions of the neighbourhood environment and physical activity in adolescents
Active living neighborhoods
A cross-sectional examination of socio-demographic and school-level correlates of children’s school travel mode in Ottawa, Canada
Modelling the contribution of walking between home and school to daily physical activity in primary age children
Walkability around primary schools and area deprivation across Scotland
Built Environment, Psychosocial Factors and Active Commuting to School in Adolescents
Between Privilege and Oppression
Research on the Impact of the Built Environment on the Characteristics of Metropolis Rail Transit School Commuting—Take Wuhan as an Example
Evaluation of a multicomponent infrastructural and app-based intervention to increase children's active school travel
Effect of the Street Environment on Walking Behavior
Gender-specific social and environmental correlates of active travel to school in four European countries
The Associations of Active Travel to School With Physical Activity and Screen Time Among Adolescents
Measuring and Mapping Physical Activity Disparity (PAD) Index Based on Physical Activity Environment for Children
Children’s Perspectives of Neighbourhood Spaces
Environmental influences on children’s active travel
Chinese travellers’ mobility decision-making processes during public health crisis situations
Predictors of Active Transportation Among Safe Routes to School Participants in Arizona
Associations Between School Environments, Policies and Practices and Children's Physical Activity and Active Transportation
Understanding the influence of urban characteristics on cyclists’ stress measured through wearable sensors
Is the car losing its shine? An analysis of European adolescents’ imaginaries about automobile
Rethinking the relationship between urban development, local health and global sustainability
Active travel infrastructure design and implementation
Promoting active living through behaviour change among low-income communities in El Paso, TX
School grounds and physical activity
Active school transport routines during school transitions
Program practices and demographic factors associated with federal funding for the Safe Routes to School program in the United States
School site and the potential to walk to school
The socio-ecological determinants of change in school travel mode over the transition from childhood to adolescence and the association with physical activity intensity
Perceived neighbourhood safety moderates the relationship between active school travel and health-related quality of life
Physical activity through place attachment
Physical activity in children
Comparing residence-based to actual path-based methods for defining adolescents’ environmental exposures using granular spatial data
Exploring children’s seasonal play to promote active lifestyles in Auckland, New Zealand
Is change in environmental supportiveness between primary and secondary school associated with a decline in children׳s physical activity levels
A longitudinal study of the distance that young people walk to school
Active travel as constrained necessity or choice
Development and application of a moveability index to quantify possibilities for physical activity in the built environment of children
Factors influencing whether children walk to school
Associations between the neighbourhood built environment and out of school physical activity and active travel
Determinants of uptake and maintenance of active commuting to school
Neighborhood perceptions moderate the association between the family environment and children's objectively assessed physical activity
Are Safety-Related Features of the Road Environment Associated with Smaller Declines in Physical Activity among Youth
Children's incidental social interaction during travel international case studies from Canada, Japan, and Sweden
The role of parental involvement and gender on travel mode decisions to School in Bali, Indonesia
An experimental study using manipulated photographs to examine interactions between micro-scale environmental factors for children's cycling for transport
Promoting active student travel
Investigating factors affecting university students' use of subway before and after Covid-19 outbreak
An environment-people interactions framework for analysing children's extra-curricular activities and active transport
School site walkability and active school transport – association, mediation and moderation
Optimising urban routes as a factor to favour sustainable school transport
Understanding school trip mode choice – The case of Kanpur (India)
Associations between the streetscape built environment and walking to school among primary schoolchildren in Beijing, China
Adolescents' travel behavior in Germany
Adolescent Perspectives on the Impact of Peers and Social Media on Active Travel and Physical Activity
Evaluating the performance of spatial indicators of destination accessibility for physical activity research
Does the walkability of neighbourhoods affect children's independent mobility, independent of parental, socio-cultural and individual factors
There is a lot of traffic at the school gate in the morning which makes me nervous’
Measuring children's independent mobility
Promoting green mobility for urban park visits through explainable machine learning and policy simulation
Walking to Health
Urban Form Relationships with Walk Trip Frequency and Distance among Youth
Perceptions about the local neighborhood and walking and cycling among children
School Location and Student Travel Analysis of Factors Affecting Mode Choice
Perceived environment attributes, residential location, and walking for particular purposes
A Brief Review on Correlates of Physical Activity and Sedentariness in Youth
Active Commuting to School
Environmental correlates of walking and cycling
The relative influence of urban form on a child’s travel mode to school
Reducing obesity and related chronic disease risk in children and youth
School Trips
Personal, Family, Social, and Environmental Correlates of Active Commuting to School
Urban Form and a Child’s Trip to School
Urban form correlates of pedestrian travel in youth
Health-enhancing physical activity and sedentary behaviour in children and adolescents
How Do Perceptions of Local Neighborhood Relate to Adolescents' Walking and Cycling?
The Effectiveness of Urban Design and Land Use and Transport Policies and Practices to Increase Physical Activity
Evaluation of the California Safe Routes to School legislation
Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children
How do they get there? A spatial analysis of a ‘sprawl school’ in Oregon
Active versus passive transportation to school–differences in screen time, socio-economic position and perceived environmental characteristics in adolescent girls
Active commuting to school among NSW primary school children
The influence of psychosocial and environmental factors on children's independent mobility and relationship to peer frequentation
Determinants of leisure time physical activity in rural compared with urban older and ethnically diverse women in the United States
Differential correlates of physical activity in urban and rural adults of various socioeconomic backgrounds in the United States
Promoting Safe Walking and Cycling to Improve Public Health
Prevalence of Active Commuting at Urban and Suburban Elementary Schools in Columbia, SC
Developing a framework for assessment of the environmental determinants of walking and cycling
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| Citations per year | 6,94 |
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| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 109 |