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Exploring active transportation investments and associated benefits for municipal budgets : a scoping review
Kornas, Kathy; Bornbaum, Catherine; Bushey, Christine; … - In: Transport reviews : TR 37 (2017) 4, pp. 465-487
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Understanding caregivers' intentions for their child to walk to school : further application of the theory of planned behavior
Schuster, Lisa; Kubacki, Krzysztof; Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn - In: Health marketing quarterly 33 (2016) 4, pp. 307-320
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Daily mobility patterns of an urban population and their relationship to overweight and obesity
Olabarria, Marta; Pérez, Katherine; … - In: Transport Policy 32 (2014) C, pp. 165-171
is to examine the relationship between mobility and overweight/obesity in an urban context, while considering physical …
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Faster, taller, better : transit improvements and land use policies
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2023
We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...
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Faster, taller, better: Transit improvements and land use policies
Chen, Liming; Hasan, Rana; Jiang, Yi; Parkhomenko, Andrii - 2023
We study the interaction between transit improvements and land use policies in the context of Bengaluru, one of India's largest cities. The city inaugurated a metro system in 2011. Yet it has low building heights even near metro stations, reflecting low floor-area ratio limits. We construct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014549266
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An alternative approach to funding parking structures
Martindill, Michael; Perry, Jason - In: Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in …, (pp. 289-305). 2022
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PROSPECT OF THE TRANSIT-ORIENTED EVELOPMENT IN CHINA
CHEN, Xueming - In: Management Research and Practice 2 (2010) 1, pp. 83-93
Even though transit-oriented development (TOD) concept remains disputable in the United States (U.S.), it is almost universally accepted by the Chinese planning community. This is largely attributed to China’s national policy on prioritizing the public transit development. It should be...
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The Impacts of LRT, Neighbourhood Characteristics, and Self-selection on Auto Ownership: Evidence from Minneapolis-St. Paul
Cao, Jason; Cao, Xiaoshu - In: Urban Studies 51 (2014) 10, pp. 2068-2087
There is a growing interest in exploring the relationships between the built environment and auto ownership and a number of studies have investigated the impact of rail transit on travel behaviour. However, few have disentangled the impact of rail transit on auto ownership from the influences of...
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Food prices and body fatness among youths
Grossman, Michael; Tekin, Erdal; Wada, Roy - 2013
In this paper, we examine the effect of food prices on clinical measures of obesity, including body mass index (BMI … study to consider clinically measured levels of body composition rather than BMI to investigate the effects of food prices … on obesity among youths. We also examine whether the effects of food prices on body composition differ by gender and race …
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Consequences of the obesity epidemic for immigrants : when migrants move to countries with high obesity rates, does assimilation lead to labor market penalties and higher health ca...
Argys, Laura M. - 2015
Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass … index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and … the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher obesity rates, it is important to understand the consequences of …
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