Sidewalks Promote Walking

Details

• Creators:
  Feuerberg, Gary
• Corporate Contributors:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Sidewalks
  • Pedestrians
  • Walking
• Series:
  BTS Special Reports and Issue Briefs
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1501599
• Resource Type:
  Brief
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Bureau of Transportation Statistics
• Abstract:
  Of America's 205 million adults, 86% took walks during the summer months of 2002, and 40% of those walkers walked more than 15 days per month. Fourteen percent of adult Americans state they never take walks. The presence of sidewalks has a slight positive effect on the tendency for adults to take walks, but has no effect on the frequency of those walks. If people in communities without sidewalks (about one-third of the population), were to walk at the same rate as they do in communities with sidewalks, an additional 2.8 million adults would join the ranks of the walking. Non-walkers are more likely than walkers to assert that their communities need more sidewalks and to voice dissatisfaction with their community designs in making walking safe (overall 17%). In communities without sidewalks, adults are three times as likely as other adults to state their dissatisfaction.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/6330/dot_6330_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 86.58 KB]
• Collection(s):
  BTS Products
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:150b6c6c48e51378925b0a680a8f34586efbfed950d06eaf61cad72d64022cb4