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Title: Children in a Rail-Based Developed Area of Japan: Travel Patterns, Independence, and Exercise
Accession Number: 01127208
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: This paper examines measures of travel behavior and exercise for children in four different levels of population density in the Osaka metropolitan areas of Japan. This area’s built environment reflects principles of transit-oriented development with neighborhoods that have grown around an initial train station, where shops intermix with housing and often cluster around the station. Local trips by adults are often by nonmotorized modes. For children’s travel behavior, this study looked at measures of social cohesion, independent travel, mode splits, and average travel times. The study found positive correlations of population density with both the social cohesion measure and the percentage of independent trips over a day. Negative correlation was observed for travel time. The measures for exercise were the number of times a child participated in running-level activities over a day and how much exercise was gained through nonmotorized travel. Mixed results occurred, with only Sundays having a negative correlation for the running-level activity participation and the correlation for the amount of exercise gained through nonmotorized travel flip-flopping between weekdays and Sundays.
Monograph Title: Monograph Accession #: 01147488
Report/Paper Numbers: 09-1392
Language: English
Authors: Waygood, E Owen DKitamura, RyuichiPagination: pp 36-43
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9780309142533
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
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; References
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; Tables
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TRT Terms: Geographic Terms: Subject Areas: Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 30 2009 5:39PM
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