Walking : connecting sustainable transport with health /
edited by Corinne Mulley, Klaus Gebel and Ding Ding
- Bingley : Emerald Publishing, 2017.
- xiv, 427 p. : ill.
- Transport and Sustainability / edited by Stephen Ison and Jon Shaw v. 9 .
Introduction / Corinne Mulley, Klaus Gebel, Ding Ding -- SECTION 1. Walking: Its Prevalence, Its Benefits and its Variety -- Chapter 2. Measurement of Walking / Dafna Merom, Robert Koryeinski -- Chapter 3. Understanding the Determinants of Walking as the Basis for Social Marketing Public Health Messaging / Corinne Mulley, Chinh Ho -- Chapter 4. The Health Benefits of Walking / Paul Kelly, Marie Murphy, Nanette Mutrie -- Chapter 5. Economic Value of Walking / Todd Litman -- Chapter 6. Walking to and from School / Jacky Kennedy, George Mammen -- Chapter 7. Dog Walking / Hayley E. Christian, Gavin R. McCormack, Kelly R. Evenson, Clover Maitland -- SECTION 2. Environments and Walking -- Chapter 8. The Built Environment and Walking / William Riggs, Ruth L. Steiner -- Chapter 9. Public Transport Infrastructure and Walking: Gearing Towards the Multimodal City / Sonia Lavadinho -- Chapter 10. Planning Walking Environments for People with Disabilities and Older Adults / Yochai Eisenberg, Erin D. Bouldin, Nancy Gell, Dori Rosenberg -- Chapter 11. Pedestrian Safety and Public Health / Philip Stoker, Arlie Adkins, Reid Ewing -- SECTION 3. Public Policy for Walking -- Chapter 12. Walking Policy Steps -- The Policy Development Process for the First State Walking Target in New South Wales, Australia / Peter McCue -- Chapter 13. Developing Sustainable Walking Interventions: Integrating Behavioural, Ecological and Systems Science to Promote Population Health / Liza S. Rovniak, Abby C. King -- Chapter 14. Promotion of Recreational Walking: Case Study of the Ciclovía-Recreativa of Bogota / Olga L. Sarmiento, Carlos Pedraza, Camilo A. Triana, Diana P. Diaz, Silvia A. González, Sergio Montero -- SECTION 4. Case Studies -- Chapter 15. Vancouver and the Walker: The Evolution of the Walkable City / Sandy James -- Chapter 16. Walking in Vienna: Smoothing the Way for Creating a New Urban Lifestyle / Wiebke Unbehaun, Mailin Gaupp-Berghausen, Petra Jens -- Chapter 17. Walking for Transportation and Transmilenio in Bogota: Strengths and Shortcomings / Diana C. Parra, Pablo D. Lemoine -- Chapter 18. Retrofitting Traditional Streets for Shared Uses: The 'Pedestrian Priority Street' in Seoul / Sunghoon Oh, Jennifer L. Kent -- SECTION 5. Into the Future -- Chapter 19. The Future of Walking? / Miles Tight.
This book features a multidisciplinary focus on walking as a mode in the context of transportation, urban planning and health. Breaking down the silos, this book presents a multidisciplinary focus bringing together research from transport, public health and planning to show linkages and the variation in experience around the world
9781787146280
MTLP Choice of transportation. Transportation--Public Health