Natural and built environmental exposures on children's active school travel: A Dutch global positioning system-based cross-sectional study

Health and Place

Volumn 39, Issue , 2016, Pages 101-109

  Helbich, Marco ^a   Emmichoven, Maarten J Zeylmans van ^a   Dijst, Martin J ^a   Kwan, Mei Po ^b   Pierik, Frank H ^c   Vries, Sanne I de ^d  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c TNO   (Netherlands)

^d THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Active and passive transport; Building roughness index; Elementary school children; Environmental exposures; Global positioning system; Space syntax; The Netherlands; Weather, natural and built environment

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; GIS; GPS; STUDENT; TRANSPORTATION MODE; TRAVEL BEHAVIOR; WEATHER;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC SAFETY; TRAVEL; URBAN AREA; WALKING; WEATHER; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UTILIZATION;

NETHERLANDS;

BICYCLING; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SCHOOLS; TRANSPORTATION; WALKING;

EID: 84961249377     PISSN: 13538292     EISSN: 18732054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2016.03.003     Document Type: Article

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