Improved characterizing of access for assessing the impact of community design on active transportation and health outcomes.

Garrick, Norman; Marshall, Wesley

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Improved characterizing of access for assessing the impact of community design on active transportation and health outcomes.

2013-04-01
By Garrick, Norman ; Marshall, Wesley

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Creators:

Garrick, Norman ; Marshall, Wesley
Corporate Creators:

University of Connecticut ; University of Colorado at Denver
Subject/TRT Terms:
- Access
- Streets
- Highway design
- Urban design
- Travel behavior
- Mode choice
- Walking
- Bicycling
- Land use
- Health
Publication/ Report Number:

UCNR23-1
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Corporate Publisher:

New England University Transportation Center
Abstract:

This study was aimed at characterizing transportation access by incorporating the Street Smart Walk ; Score®. This was done by conducting an assessment of common measures of street design, street ; network design, land use, and Street Smart Walk Score®, and their impact on travel behavior. The ; overall goal was to better characterize the built environment in order to assess how the built ; environment might affect mode choice for active transportation and health outcomes.
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PDF
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https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/26610/dot_26610_DS1.pdf
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[PDF - 193.09 KB]
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University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
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urn:sha-512:bfbcb4c47b2eab870f3ea08a1da39cf8a2e2f33a3cd3a6bb77215a39094497c68c958adb3afc324739f5a8a0f8310367d72f10ed62bddfecf50492d023543aff

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English

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