Switching from active to passive travel—What is the potential among adolescents?
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https://doi.org/10.14288/hfjc.v14i3.376Keywords:
Active Travel, Motorised Transport, Modal Shift, Travel PatternsAbstract
Background: Few Australian adolescents are sufficiently active. Replacing short ‘passive’ travel (i.e. car, public transport) with active travel (i.e. walking or cycling) could be an important potential strategy to increase physical activity. Purpose: To characterise adolescents’ travel patterns to various destinations, identify short passive trips that could be feasibly replaced by active travel, and identify the characteristics associated with those trips. Methods: Data were from 2,192 Victorian secondary school students (12-17 years; 51% males) with 24-h travel diary data in the Victorian Integrated Survey of Travel Activity 2012–2016. Feasible distance thresholds for walking and cycling were determined at the 80th percentile of distance of reported walking and cycling trips, respectively, in the sample. Comparison tests were conducted to assess whether travel patterns differed by sociodemographic characteristics. Multilevel logistic regression identified characteristics of passive trips that could be replaced by active travel. Results: A total of 6,428 trips comprising 8,986 trip legs (segments) were recorded. About 11% of adolescents could feasibly replace ≥1 short passive trip with walking and 48% could feasibly replace ≥1 short passive trip with cycling. Of the passive trips recorded, 7% could be replaced with walking and 40% could be replaced with cycling. Trips that commenced within daylight hours, and trips made for shopping and social reasons had higher odds of being replaceable by active travel. Conclusion: Increasing cycling for transport, especially for discretionary trips made during daylight hours, could potentially have a significant impact on overall physical activity levels. Funding: VL is supported by an Executive Dean’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. JV is supported by an Australian National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (ID 101928). AMCA was previously supported by, and AT was a recipient of, a National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence (APP1057608) during the conduct of this study.
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