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COVID-19 impacts on mobility, environment, and health of active transportation users

Active transportation could be an effective way to promote healthy physical activity, especially during pandemics like COVID-19. A comprehensive evaluation of health outcomes derived from COVID-19 induced active transportation can assist multiple stakeholders in revisiting strategies and priorities...

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Autores principales: Li, Xiao, Farrukh, Minaal, Lee, Chanam, Khreis, Haneen, Sarda, Soham, Sohrabi, Soheil, Zhang, Zhe, Dadashova, Bahar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9345890/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35935595
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103886
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author Li, Xiao
Farrukh, Minaal
Lee, Chanam
Khreis, Haneen
Sarda, Soham
Sohrabi, Soheil
Zhang, Zhe
Dadashova, Bahar
author_facet Li, Xiao
Farrukh, Minaal
Lee, Chanam
Khreis, Haneen
Sarda, Soham
Sohrabi, Soheil
Zhang, Zhe
Dadashova, Bahar
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description Active transportation could be an effective way to promote healthy physical activity, especially during pandemics like COVID-19. A comprehensive evaluation of health outcomes derived from COVID-19 induced active transportation can assist multiple stakeholders in revisiting strategies and priorities for supporting active transportation during and beyond the pandemic. We performed a two-step reviewing process by combining a scoping review with a narrative review to summarize published literature addressing the influence of COVID-19 on mobility and the environment that can lead to various health pathways and health outcomes associated with active transportation. We summarized the COVID-19 induced changes in active transportation demand, built environment, air quality, and physical activity. The results demonstrated that, since the pandemic began, bike-sharing users dropped significantly while recreational bike trips and walking activities increased in some areas. Meanwhile, there have been favorable changes to the air quality and the built environment for active transportation users. We then discussed how these changes impact health outcomes during the pandemic and their implications for urban planning and policymaking. This review also suggests that walking and biking can make up for the reduced physical activities during the pandemic, helping people stay active and healthy.
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spelling pubmed-93458902022-08-03 COVID-19 impacts on mobility, environment, and health of active transportation users Li, Xiao Farrukh, Minaal Lee, Chanam Khreis, Haneen Sarda, Soham Sohrabi, Soheil Zhang, Zhe Dadashova, Bahar Cities Article Active transportation could be an effective way to promote healthy physical activity, especially during pandemics like COVID-19. A comprehensive evaluation of health outcomes derived from COVID-19 induced active transportation can assist multiple stakeholders in revisiting strategies and priorities for supporting active transportation during and beyond the pandemic. We performed a two-step reviewing process by combining a scoping review with a narrative review to summarize published literature addressing the influence of COVID-19 on mobility and the environment that can lead to various health pathways and health outcomes associated with active transportation. We summarized the COVID-19 induced changes in active transportation demand, built environment, air quality, and physical activity. The results demonstrated that, since the pandemic began, bike-sharing users dropped significantly while recreational bike trips and walking activities increased in some areas. Meanwhile, there have been favorable changes to the air quality and the built environment for active transportation users. We then discussed how these changes impact health outcomes during the pandemic and their implications for urban planning and policymaking. This review also suggests that walking and biking can make up for the reduced physical activities during the pandemic, helping people stay active and healthy. Elsevier Ltd. 2022-12 2022-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC9345890/ /pubmed/35935595 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.103886 Text en © 2022 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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