Examining ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters’ health, wellbeing and sustainable development
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- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Global Health, Health Policy, Public Health
- Keywords
- Active Transportation, Commuters, Wellbeing, Sustainable Development
- Copyright
- © 2018 Papageorgiou et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2018. Examining ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters’ health, wellbeing and sustainable development. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26464v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26464v1
Abstract
Active transportation and physical activity is a major remedy to health-related problems in our society. According to the World Health Organization the lack of physical activity is one of the leading risk factors for global mortality as well as health problems such as diabetes, cardiovascular complications and other diseases that are threatening public health. To reduce the health risks of physical inactivity, active transportation and generally physical activity have recently gained great interest in our modern societies. This paper investigates ways to enhance active transportation and the impact on commuters’ health, wellbeing and urban sustainability. As a result, a theoretical framework is developed that explores the relevant variables that influence commuter’s willingness for active mobility.
Author Comment
This is a preprint submission to PeerJ Preprints.