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Title:

Why Don’t You Ride a Bicycle? The Household, Personal, Social and Built Environment and Cycling Activity of Urban Elderly Male and(or) Female: Evidence from Zhongshan Metropolitan Area, China

Accession Number:

01551605

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Cycling is an important form of active transport and physical activity to provide substantial health benefits to the elderly. Among voluminous physical activity-related literature, few studies have investigated the correlates of active transport of urban elderly male and/or female in China. This study was the first attempt to investigate the impact of the household, personal, and environmental attributes on urban elderly’s cycling activity with data collected in 33 urban neighborhoods of Zhongshan Metropolitan Area, China. The negative binomial regression models suggest that, all else being equal, availability of household bicycles, positive attitude towards cycling, and better safety at interactions are strongly related to more cycling trips for either male or female. The models also detect that availability of private car and social environment were significantly related to only urban elderly male’s cycling activity, while living management and availability of e-bike to only urban elderly female’s. The findings provide insights for transportation and public health agencies, practitioners, and researchers into better understanding of the gender gap in urban elderly’s cycling activity and effective design of interventions on health promotion of urban elderly in China.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABE30 Transportation Issues in Major U.S. Cities. Alternate title: Why Don’t You Ride a Bicycle? Household, Personal, Social, and Built Environment and Cycling Activity of Urban Elderly Males and/or Females--Evidence from Zhongshan Metropolitan Area, China

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-0570

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Li, Chaoyang
Liu, Qixing
Zhang, Yi

Pagination:

17p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; References; Tables

Geographic Terms:

Zhongshan (China)

Subject Areas:

Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-0570

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 12:18PM