Walking as a Mode of Transport: Interactions between the Environmental Conditions and Human Behaviour
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Global Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 24425
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human mobility; population health; integrative physiology; human behaviour; outdoor environments and seasonal climate variations; risk perception and management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will comprise a selection of papers reporting on the identification and management of attributes of significance for people’s use of walking as a modal choice.
We welcome manuscripts that report on key determinants of walking as a mode of transport. Research should address interactions between environmental conditions and human behaviour, with emphasis on walking as a mode of transportation. Papers that focus on the design, policy, and management of key determinants are strongly encouraged. Research can be from a variety of geographical locations and sociocultural conditions and about residents of all ages, vulnerabilities, and capacities.
This Special Issue aims to contribute to knowledge about the variety of attributes that significantly influence people's choices and abilities to use walking as a mode of transport and how they operate.
An important challenge within urban development is to create environments that encourage active modes of transport such as walking all year round. This goal supports public health objectives of promoting opportunities for community walking as a means for physical and mental wellbeing. Further, it contributes to environmental benefits by reducing energy consumption and pollution.
To enable walking as a mode of transport, it is vital to understand the critical environmental and behavioural elements that encourage people to choose walking over other transport options.
Walking can be enabled or challenged by climatic changes and seasonal variations or by emerging psychological and sociocultural conditions, i.e., pandemics and societal changes.
Dr. Agneta Larsson
Dr. David Chapman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Walking
- Environment
- Urbanism
- Public policy
- Placemaking
- Public realm
- Health
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