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{"title":"The impact of transport, housing, and urban development interventions on older adults’ mobility: A systematic review of experimental and quasi-experimental studies","authors":"Thiago Hérick de Sá ,&nbsp;Daniele Sudsataya ,&nbsp;Andra Fry ,&nbsp;Nazak Salehi ,&nbsp;Aishwarya Katiki ,&nbsp;Megan Mcleod ,&nbsp;Greg Rathmell ,&nbsp;Jon Cylus ,&nbsp;Louise Lafortune ,&nbsp;Tine Buffel ,&nbsp;Patty Doran ,&nbsp;Alana Officer ,&nbsp;Huseyin Naci","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101859","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Age-friendly cities and communities aim to enhance and preserve the functional abilities of older adults. This systematic review assesses the impact of interventions in transportation, housing, and urban development on the mobility of older adults.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We systematically searched MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, PsycINFO, and SocINDEX up to July 2022 to identify studies that evaluated the impact of transportation, housing, and urban development interventions on older adults' mobility. Only randomised controlled trials and quasi-experimental studies with control groups were included to establish a causal relationship between interventions and mobility outcomes.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>We included a total of 15 studies, of which six were randomised controlled trials. Included studies were conducted in high-income settings and employed diverse metrics to assess mobility outcomes. Among housing interventions, three studies examined the impact of assistive technology within home environments for frail older adults. Two of these interventions maintained functional status without improvement, while the third showed a significant decline in outcomes, with the control group faring even worse. Public transport interventions, focused on enhancing mobility through educational initiatives and policy revisions, consistently produced positive outcomes. Interventions related to driving training for older adults, including in-class and on-road assessments, demonstrated beneficial effects. Results from studies evaluating urban design interventions were more varied, with some enhancing mobility by making public spaces more accessible for older adults and others yielding mixed results following infrastructure changes.</p></div><div><h3>Interpretation</h3><p>Interventions in the built environments of older adults, specifically targeting transportation, housing and urban development, have the potential to enhance mobility and related outcomes according to rigorously designed quantitative evaluations. Due to heterogeneity in how mobility is conceptualised in the literature, greater harmonisation in measurement of mobility would help us understand how the social and built environment contribute to maintaining and improving mobility in older adults.</p></div><div><h3>Funding</h3><p>World Health Organization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524001051/pdfft?md5=9623237a45b87280dda29d9b6333fbeb&pid=1-s2.0-S2214140524001051-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Identifying the potential for increasing cycling in Denmark: Factors associated with short-distance and long-distance commuter cycling","authors":"Tanja Schmidt,&nbsp;Trine Top Klein-Wengel,&nbsp;Lars Breum Christiansen,&nbsp;Karsten Elmose-Østerlund,&nbsp;Jasper Schipperijn","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101870","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Increasing transportation cycling is an effective initiative toward better population health. The aim was to describe differences between less and more frequent cyclists, and to identify factors associated with transportation cycling for people with short and long distances to work or education.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The study is based on data from approximately 46,000 respondents from a Danish cross-sectional survey conducted in 2020. The survey included questions on active transportation, barriers, and social background. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis were performed for two groups of less and more frequent cyclists: short distance (1–5 km) and long distance (6–15 km).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Overall, 49.3% of those living within a short distance and 73.0% of those living within a long distance cycled two or fewer days a week to work or education. The odds of cycling more often were significantly higher for individuals aged 15–29, women, higher-educated people, students, people with Danish ethnicity, those with daily access to a bike, people living with children, and those in the municipality area. The odds of cycling more often were significantly lower for people who identified time, physical appearance, safety issues, capabilities, and a preference for car driving as barriers to more active transportation.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>This study shows that there are geographical differences within Denmark that affect cycling Rates, despite the country being categorized as a cycling nation. People living in rural areas are less likely to cycle to work or education despite having the same commuting distances as people living in the cities. This is surprising and should be further investigated to identify potential infrastructural, cultural, or interpersonal factors that may promote more commuter cycling among people living in rural areas.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524001166/pdfft?md5=a39f166bcb8138abb9ded6d26c534e3c&pid=1-s2.0-S2214140524001166-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Feasibility of a school-based intervention to promote active school transportation – The school personnel's perspective","authors":"Eva Savolainen,&nbsp;Anna-Karin Lindqvist,&nbsp;Stina Rutberg","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>There is a growing need to invest in interventions that promote physical activity, such as active school transportation. Ideally, these interventions should be school-based to reach as many children as possible. However, school personnel have a heavy workload, and interventions must be feasible and sustainable. This study aims to explore the feasibility of a school-based intervention from the school personnel's perspective and increase knowledge about what makes an intervention in a school context feasible.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>A qualitative design was applied with individual interviews with 19 participants, including principals, teachers, project coordinators, one school nurse, and one operation manager. The data were analyzed with qualitative content analysis.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The result were formulated into one main theme “Crossing the threshold – enter and you might feel at home” and three subthemes “Flexibility for integration in the school context”, “Sensing meaningfulness is essential for being worth the effort” and <strong>“</strong>A supportive design to enhance enthusiasm”. These themes indicate that schools have a heavy workload and that there is a threshold for schools to invest time and effort into health promoting intervention. Flexibility, meaningfulness, and support were thus crucial elements for making an intervention in the school context feasible.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The results of this study outline a promising strategy to meet the needs of school personnel and can serve as a valuable guide for further research concerning school-based interventions aiming to promote health.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524001130/pdfft?md5=666962741e8cc19e7f016bfb19bffbc9&pid=1-s2.0-S2214140524001130-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Association between neighborhood built environment and resident leisure walking – A cross-sectional study in China","authors":"Ke Peng ,&nbsp;Yuying Chen ,&nbsp;Lingyun Deng ,&nbsp;Lu Wang ,&nbsp;Anne Vernez Moudon","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101864","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101864","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Physical activity has a vital influence in promoting health and sustainable development of society and environment. Leisure walking, as a widely embraced low-cost physical activity, can effectively help reduce the prevalence of chronic diseases and enhance health. Improving the neighborhood built environment may affect the quality of leisure walking, as an activity that depends upon features of the built environment.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>Using data from the 2015 China Health and Nutrition Survey, we obtained a sample of 1006 residents from 134 neighborhoods in nine provinces east of the Heihe-Tengchong Line in China. We used logit mixed-effect models and linear mixed-effect models to measure associations between neighborhood built environment characteristics and leisure walking durations within urban, suburban, county-seat, and rural neighborhoods. We differentiated between leisure walking on weekdays and weekends.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Residents in rural neighborhoods that had dirt or paved roads had shorter leisure walking durations compared with residents in rural neighborhoods that had mainly gravel roads. Residents in urban neighborhoods that had gyms had shorter leisure walking durations compared with residents in urban neighborhoods for which the nearest gym was outside the neighborhood. The presence of parks did not show any significant association with leisure walking durations in any neighborhood type. The presence of bus stops was associated with greater leisure walking durations in county-seat neighborhoods, as were more restaurants in suburban neighborhoods.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Seemingly mundane built environment factors such as road pavement type appeared to be more closely associated with the duration of leisure walking than previously studied parks. Different built environment factors were associated with leisure walking duration within specific neighborhood types. Further research should focus on the characteristics of leisure walking behavior in various spatial contexts and during different time periods to continue to reveal the complex interactions between built environment factors and leisure walking.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Causal mediation analysis of social and environmental factors in pathways from a metro intervention to eudaimonic wellbeing among older people","authors":"Yao Du,&nbsp;Guibo Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101844","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>This research aims to unravel the pathways linking transport with eudaimonic wellbeing among older people, considering the mediating role of social and environmental factors.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We focused on outcomes across six dimensions of eudaimonic wellbeing: self-acceptance, autonomy, positive relations with others, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth. Using a new metro line as a natural experiment, we collected cohort data of 449 older adults before and after the opening of a new metro line. The treatment group consisted of participants living within the 400-m buffer zones surrounding the new metro stations, while the control group consisted of those living in comparable station catchments. The mediators include social engagement and environmental perception. We first used difference-in-difference (DID) models to estimate the metro's direct influence on these eudaimonic elements. Causal mediation analyses were then conducted to delved into how the social and environmental factors mediated these effects.</p></div><div><h3>Result</h3><p>The new metro enhanced the treatment group's environmental mastery, life purpose, and self-acceptance (p &lt; 0.05). These improvements were partly attributed to promoted social engagement and improved environmental perceptions triggered by the metro development (p &lt; 0.05). Notably, the environmental perceptions demonstrated a stronger mediating effect than the social factors.</p></div><div><h3>Discussion and conclusion</h3><p>Transport interventions could effectively counteract the age-related eudaimonic decline. The enhancement of environmental perceptions played a key role in the effectiveness of the metro intervention. Our findings contribute to the understanding of casual mechanisms of transport and wellbeing which is vital for developing transport policies and projects that address the needs of an ageing population.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using the hierarchy of active travel needs to examine associations between streetscape environments and older adults' active travel in China","authors":"Yuqi Liu ,&nbsp;Xiaoge Wang ,&nbsp;Yuting Liu ,&nbsp;Yiru Li ,&nbsp;Xiaoyi Ma ,&nbsp;An Jin ,&nbsp;Cheng Song ,&nbsp;Yao Yao","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101834","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Little is known about the extent to which the age-friendliness of streetscape built environments may influence older adults’ active travel (AT) patterns. Moreover, with the exception of street greenery, the non-linear and threshold effects of other characteristics of streetscape built environments have not been examined.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>This study used data from the Third Guangzhou Official Household Travel Survey 2017 and Tencent Street View images. Using the Hurdle model and Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs), we examined the non-linear relationships between streetscape built environments and older adults’ AT patterns (i.e., frequency and duration). The models controlled for neighbourhood-level built environment attributes and individual-level characteristics.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Pavement ratio and street obstacles had negative impacts on older adults' AT duration within a certain range, but outside this range, the negative associations no longer held. Street safety, greenery, and vitality were positively associated with older adults’ AT duration within a certain range. Street design exerted positive effects on the likelihood of AT. Age-friendly streetscape built environment attributes showed stronger relationships with the likelihood of AT among older adults aged 70–79, and larger impacts on AT duration for older adults aged 60–69. Notably, street greenery had positive impacts on both AT frequency and duration among older adults aged 80 and above.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>The results showed significant non-linear associations between six streetscape built environment characteristics and older adults’ AT patterns. This study provides implications for building age-friendly streetscape built environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141485787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Are early maladaptive schemas related to current driver behaviors? A study on previous toxic experiences and driving","authors":"Gizem Fındık ,&nbsp;Sema Erel ,&nbsp;Bahar Öz","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101862","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Realizing the importance of driver behaviors in the context of road traffic safety, researchers investigated the factors that relate to driver behaviors. One of the most examined factors predicting driver behaviors is personality. In addition to personality characteristics, early maladaptive schemas (EMS) play a critical role in the way the individual thinks, feels, acts, and relates to others, which leads them to display the maladaptive behaviors to recreate the harmful conditions experienced in childhood. EMS are found to be associated with behavioral problems such as illicit drug use, aggressive and illegal behaviors, heavy alcohol use, risky sexual behaviors, violence towards parents and partners. The current work aims to examine the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and driver behaviors in traffic context after controlling the role of personality.</p></div><div><h3>Method</h3><p>Of the 294 participants, 141 were males, 151 were females, and 2 did not specify sex. Age range was 18–67 (<em>M</em> = 27.2, <em>SD</em> = 10.5). Participants filled out an online survey battery including a demographic information form, the Basic Personality Traits Inventory, the Dirty Dozen, the Young Schema Questionnaire 3 Short Form, and the Driver Behavior Questionnaire.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>According to the results of the correlation analysis, schema domains showed significant relationships with the driver behavior subscales for 17 out of 25 coefficients. Hierarchical regression analyses suggested that impaired autonomy was positively associated with errors and lapses, while it was negatively associated with positive behaviors. This relationship was found when demographic and personality variables were accounted for.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>The current study is the first to exclusively investigate the relationship between EMS and driver behaviors. Relationship between impaired autonomy on one hand and errors and lapses on the other point out to the role of affective and cognitive processes that play a role in driving.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141444278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Neighbourhood walkability and body mass index in children: Evidence from the Millennium Cohort Study in Wales","authors":"Theodora Pouliou ,&nbsp;Rebecca Pedrick-Case ,&nbsp;Rowena Bailey ,&nbsp;Anna Rawlings ,&nbsp;Amy Mizen ,&nbsp;Jo Davies ,&nbsp;Gareth Stratton ,&nbsp;Ronan A. Lyons ,&nbsp;Ben Beck ,&nbsp;Hayley Christian ,&nbsp;Richard Fry ,&nbsp;Lucy J. Griffiths","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101855","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><p>Overweight and obesity in children continues to increase. Yet, the role of active transport, namely walking, in mitigating these trends remains unclear. This study examined the cross-sectional association between walkability and children's Body Mass Index (BMI) and how this varies by socio-economic and lifestyle characteristics.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>We analysed BMI for 14-year-old children living in Wales from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Children were categorised as healthy weight, overweight or obese using the British 1990 cut-off points. Walkability was assessed using the Wales Active Living Environments (Wal-ALE) database, categorised as 1 (least walkable environments) to 5 (most walkable environments). We applied multinomial logistic regression analysis and adjusted for ethnicity, having a limiting longstanding illness, parental BMI, socio-economic circumstances, and lifestyle characteristics.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>Children were more likely to be obese if they lived in areas classed as more walkable in unadjusted analysis [Relative Risk Ratio (RRR) = 1.72 (95%CI = 1.15–2.58)] and following adjustment for ethnicity, limiting longstanding illness and parental BMI [RRR = 1.83 (95%CI = 1.12–3.00)]). Significant associations remained even after further adjustment for lifestyle characteristics and socio-economic circumstances [RRR = 1.76 (95%CI = 1.05–2.96)]. Further, children were more likely to be obese if their parents were overweight or obese and if they were living in poverty. Children were less likely to be obese if they spent 3 or more days per week in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and if they ate breakfast every day vs. some days or never.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusion</h3><p>Findings demonstrate that walkable environments are not associated with lower rates of obesity in children, indicating that the relationship between the built environment and child health is complex and requires further study.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524001014/pdfft?md5=00d460b53eb1e7f29cac0e1cbc85fd7f&pid=1-s2.0-S2214140524001014-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141438372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tracing the path of cycling initiatives: Revisiting Lancaster's CDT program and unravelling current policies","authors":"Demet Yesiltepe ,&nbsp;Ruth Conroy Dalton ,&nbsp;Christopher Boyko","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Introduction</h3><p>Active modes of transportation have gained significant prominence in many cities, with governments and public health organizations increasingly advocating for cycling. While policy and planning decisions are actively aimed at boosting cycling rates, their long-term impact remains somewhat uncertain. This study seeks to shed light on the enduring effects of policy and planning decisions on cycling and outlines potential steps for sustainable progress.</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>To achieve this, we have chosen Lancaster, UK, as our case study, with a specific focus on the UK Government-funded Cycling Demonstration Towns (CDTs) program that operated from 2005 to 2011. Our approach involves revisiting this program and the changes in the city through a multi-pronged methodology: conducting surveys with cyclists (n = 65), engaging in interviews with personnel from Lancaster City and Lancashire County Council (n = 3), and analyzing cyclist numbers at specific locations (n = 5).</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The findings of our study reveal the positive influence of the CDTs program on cycling rates and the perspectives of cyclists in Lancaster. However, after the program's completion, progress has been somewhat gradual, drawing attention to specific areas in need of improvement, particularly infrastructure and safety measures.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>In conclusion, we delve into potential strategies for implementation, not only within Lancaster but also for other CDTs and cities aspiring to promote cycling initiatives. This underscores the effectiveness of such programs and decisions in the short-term while emphasizing the critical importance of sustained investments in infrastructure and maintenance for long-term impact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141438277","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Do parents support e-bike use among teenagers, and why? Evidence from Vietnam","authors":"Minh Hieu Nguyen ,&nbsp;Dorina Pojani ,&nbsp;Duy Q. Nguyen-Phuoc ,&nbsp;Thanh Chuong Nguyen ,&nbsp;Thanh Tung Ha","doi":"10.1016/j.jth.2024.101861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2024.101861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Objectives</h3><p>Habituating young generations to using green modes is critical to forming sustainable transportation development. However, we do not know what enables or deters e-bike use among teenagers in developing countries. This study, set in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, seeks to answer two research questions: (1) how much do teenagers use e-bikes and why, and (2) how much do parents support further e-bike use among teenagers?</p></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><p>The current study relies on a survey of 832 parents of older teenagers (about half of whom use e-bikes). Exploratory factor analysis is applied to derive latent psychological variables before binary and ordinal logit regression models are estimated to explore the factors that affect teenagers’ actual use of e-bikes and their parents' support for e-bike use.</p></div><div><h3>Results</h3><p>The prevalence of e-bike use is 52%. Teenagers are more likely to use e-bikes, and be supported in this choice, when their parents believe that e-bikes are useful and safe. Parents care a great deal about their children's preferences around travel modes. A positive attitude towards e-bikes and an encouraging social circle lead to more e-bike use among teenagers and more parental support for e-bike use. Environmental awareness only predicts parental support for e-bikes use while perceived ease of use is positively associated with actual use by teens. Older teenagers are less likely to use e-bikes.</p></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Our findings can assist government agencies in adopting appropriate policies to sustain the use of e-bikes among teenagers. More research is needed to validate the findings of this study in other settings. Future studies should employ longitudinal data from representative samples of teens and/or parents.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47838,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Transport & Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141428703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}