Exploring the spatial scale effects of built environments on transport walking: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

The authors employed a longitudinal distributed lag modeling approach to systematically estimate how associations between built environment features and transport walking decayed with the increase of distance from home to built environment destinations. Data came from a cohort recruited from six U.S. cities (follow-up 2000–2010, N = 3913, baseline mean age 60). Built environment features included all walkable destinations, consisting of common and popular destinations for daily life. The authors also included two subsets frequent social destinations and food stores to examine if the spatial scale effects differed by varying density for different types of built environment destinations. Adjusted results found that increases in transport walking diminished when built environment destinations were farther, although distance thresholds varied across different types of built environment destinations. Higher availability of walking destinations within 2-km and frequent social destinations within 1.6-km were associated with transport walking. Food stores were not associated with transport walking. This new information will help policymakers and urban designers understand at what distances each type of built environment destinations influences transport walking, in turn informing the development of interventions and/or the placement of amenities within neighborhoods to promote transport walking. The findings that spatial scales depend on specific built environment features also highlight the need for methods that can more flexibly estimate associations between outcomes and different built environment features across varying contexts, in order to improve the understanding of the spatial mechanisms involved in said associations.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102722
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1353829221002185
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  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/13538292
• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Li, Jingjing
  • 0000-0003-4922-7081
  • Auchincloss, Amy H
  • Hirsch, Jana A
  • 0000-0003-3355-5558
  • Melly, Steven J
  • Moore, Kari A
  • 0000-0001-8771-2593
  • Peterson, Adam
  • 0000-0001-7071-7873
  • Sánchez, Brisa N
• Publication Date: 2022-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 102722
• Serial:
  • Health & Place
  • Volume: 73
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1353-8292
  • EISSN: 1873-2054
  • Serial URL: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/health-and-place/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Built environment; Diseases and medical conditions; Mobility; Trip purpose; Urban areas; Walkability
• Subject Areas: Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01836871
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 24 2022 5:16PM