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This study aims to explore how different neighbourhood designs influence children's active travel to school.

April 1, 2026

Urban Form, Children’s Active Travel to/from School, and Travel related Physical Activity

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JLJong Seon Lee

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Investigates the association between neighbourhood design features and children's active school travel, indicating the importance of urban planning for health.

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This study aims to explore how different neighbourhood designs influence children's active travel to school.
Data collected through surveys, travel diaries, and GPS devices.
Participants included 367 4th and 5th graders from conventional and new urbanist neighbourhoods.
Built environment factors such as distance to school and street density were measured using GIS.
New urbanist children walked twice as many days and biked 5-7 times more days than children in conventional neighbourhoods.
Significant differences in built environment factors were confirmed between neighbourhood types using t-tests.

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Jong Seon Lee (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69cd7a1b5652765b073a6f6c https://doi.org/10.24517/00057204

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Investigates the association between neighbourhood design features and children's active school travel, indicating the importance of urban planning for health.

Urban Form, Children’s Active Travel to/from School, and Travel related Physical Activity

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Urban Form, Children’s Active Travel to/from School, and Travel related Physical Activity

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