A report on participant sampling and recruitment for travel and physical activity data collection : final technical report, July 2009.

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• Creators:
  Moudon, Anne Vernez ; Saelens, Brian ; Rutherford, Scott ; Hallenbeck, Mark
• Corporate Creators:
  Transportation Northwest Regional Center X (TransNow) (UTC)
• Corporate Contributors:
  University of Washington. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Mode choice
  • Surveys
  • Street railroads
  • Public transit
  • Travel behavior
  • Light rail transit Choice of transportation--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Street-railroads--Ridership--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Local transit--Ridership--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Exercise--Washington (State)--Seattle
  • Household surveys--Washington (State)--Seattle
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  TNW2009-05
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Washington
• Edition:
  Final research report.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Transportation Northwest (TransNow) UTC
• Abstract:
  The substantial investments now being made in transit yield benefits that go beyond managing traffic congestion relief, ; and include improved environmental quality and potential gains in human health due to increased physical activity. Past ; research on the effects of such infrastructure investments on mode choice and physical activity has been hampered by ; cross-sectional designs that limit the ability to draw causal inference. A 5-year $3.3 million study was submitted to the ; National Institutes of Health. The study takes advantage of the introduction of light rail transit (LRT) in Seattle. Using a ; case-control longitudinal panel design, 1000 adults living either close to (within 1 mile; case) or far from (control) an LRT ; station will be assessed prior to (baseline), soon after (post 1), and more than 2 years after (post 2) the introduction of ; LRT service. It is hypothesized that residents living close to LRT will have an increase in transportation-related walking ; and total physical activity relative to residents living farther away. Individuals’ walking will be assessed via integrated ; information from portable GPS and a 7-day travel diary, and physical activity assessed via accelerometry. Neighborhood ; built environment will be assessed via parcel-level land use evaluation. Changes in non-LRT infrastructure and ; availability (e.g., bus routes) will also be considered. The proposal has been favorably reviewed once by NIH. The ; resubmission deadline is in early March. The December 2008 project start date does not give the research team the time ; needed to set up the protocol and collect the baseline data before Light Rail opens in July 2009. As a result, the research ; team has sought bridge funding for a May 2008 project start. TransNow support will contribute to this bridge funding and ; insure that baseline data can be collected on 1000 subjects for 7-day travel patterns. The study natural experiment design ; has strong potential to make a significant contribution to scientific knowledge and to transportation policy. The ; prospective evaluation of changes in the same individuals’ transport modes and physical activity over a period of marked ; change in transportation and built environment is a rare, but potent test of the impact transportation investments on ; behavior.
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  DTRS99-G-0010
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/5697/dot_5697_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.15 MB]
• Collection(s):
  University Transportation Centers ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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