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Comparative Analysis of Pedestrian Injuries Using Police, Emergency Department, and Death Certificate Data Sources in North Carolina, US, 2007–2012

Sandt, LS
Proescholdbell, S
Evenson, K
Robinson, W
Rodriguez, D
Harmon, K
Marshall, S
2020
Pedestrian safety programs are needed to address the rising incidence of pedestrian fatalities. Unfortunately, most communities lack comprehensive information on the circumstances of pedestrian crashes and resulting injuries that could help guide decision-making for prevention program development and implementation. This study aimed to evaluate how three commonly available data sources (police-reported pedestrian crashes, emergency department [ED] visits, and death certificates) define and capture pedestrian injury data, and to compare the distribution of pedestrian injuries and fatalities...

Can New Urbanism Encourage Physical Activity?: Comparing a New Urbanist Neighborhood with Conventional Suburbs

Rodriguez, DA
Khattak, AJ
Evenson, KR
2007

If neighborhood design can support or undermine active lifestyles, then residents of new urbanist neighborhoods can be expected to exhibit higher levels of physical activity than residents of conventional communities. This study compared various measures of physical activity for residents of a new urbanist neighborhood to those for a group of conventional suburban neighborhoods in central North Carolina, finding no statistically significant differences, even after adjusting for individual and household characteristics. However, we did detect differences in where people were...

Transportation Implications of Urban Containment Policies: Study of Largest 25 US Metropolitan Areas

Targa, F
Rodriguez, DA
Aytur, S
2006

Despite earlier attempts to evaluate the consequences of urban containment policy adoption, the transport implications of these policies have been overlooked. This paper examines the impact that containment policies have on population density and vehicle miles travelled per capita. An empirical analysis is conducted, relying on a fixed-effects model for panel data for the largest 25 metropolitan areas in the US during the 1982-94 time-period. Because the outcomes are endogenously related, instrumental variable regression is used to test hypotheses about the effect of the presence and...

Uso de Estrategias de Enriquecimiento Ambiental en oso Andino (Tremarctos ornatus), con Miras en su Readaptación Física y Comportamental, Buscando su Liberación al Medio Natural.

Chaparro, MY Torres
Mv, V Quintero
Rodriguez, D
2007

Las poblaciones de osos andinos en Colombia están drásticamente amenazadas y sugieren de manera crucial la aplicación de alternativas de conservación que sean acordes a los problemas específi cos de cada ejemplar. El uso de estrategias de enriquecimiento ambiental, es una práctica que ha ido cogiendo fuerza y se ha vinculado de manera importante en las propuestas de rehabilitación y liberación de osos mantenidos bajo condiciones de cautiverio. Se ha establecido que mediante el uso de estas técnicas, se puede modifi car el comportamiento de un individuo y que al establecer un cronograma de...

Exploring Associations Between Physical Activity and Perceived and Objective Measures of the Built Environment

McGinn, AP
Evenson, KR
Herring, AH
Huston, SL
Rodriguez, DA
2007

The built environment may be responsible for making nonmotorized transportation inconvenient, resulting in declines in physical activity. However, few studies have assessed both the perceived and objectively measured environment in association with physical activity outcomes. The purpose of this study was to describe the associations between perceptions and objective measures of the built environment and their associations with leisure, walking, and transportation activity. Perception of the environment was assessed from responses to 1,270 telephone surveys conducted in Forsyth...

Promoting Active Community Environments Through Land Use and Transportation Planning

Aytur, SA
Rodriguez, DA
Evenson, KR
Catellier, DJ
Rosamond, WD
2007
To examine the role of land use and transportation plans as policy instruments for promoting active community environments. Cross-sectional analysis using multilevel models to examine whether active community environment scores were associated with leisure and transportation-related physical activity (PA) and whether associations varied by household income. 67 North Carolina counties Adults (n = 6694) from pooled 2000 and 2002 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)...

The Development and Testing of an Audit for the Pedestrian Environment

Clifton, KJ
Smith, ADL
Rodriguez, D
2007

Recognizing the need for consistent, reliable, and efficient methods to collect information about the walking environment, the authors have developed and tested a complete environmental audit methodology—the Pedestrian Environmental Data Scan (PEDS). In this paper, the development of the audit methodology is presented, including the design of the instrument, the creation of training and supporting materials, administration, and integration with handheld technology. Various tests of inter- and intra-rater reliability of our instrument have been conducted, including individual audit...

Uso de un Inoculante Termofílico en la Transformación de Residuos Sólidos Urbanos (RSU)

Rodriguez, D
Ruiz, A
Delgado, MM
Matiz, A
2007

El relleno sanitario Don Juanito en la ciudad de Villavicencio, Colombia, es uno de los más importantescentros de investigación en el manejo y aprovechamiento de la fracción orgánica de residuos sólidos.Actualmente se encuentra desarrollando un importante proyecto de aprovechamiento y transformaciónmediante el proceso de compostaje enriquecido con inoculantes microbianos termófilos. El inoculanteestá conformado por bacterias autóctonas con actividad amilolítica del orden de 114.5 UA y actividadproteolítica de 98.5 UP,...

The Association of Perceived and Objectively Measured Crime with Physical Activity: a Cross-Sectional Analysis

McGinn, AP
Evenson, KR
Herring, AH
Huston, SL
Rodriguez, DA
2008

Crime is one aspect of the environment that can act as a barrier to physical activity. The goals of this study were to (1) compare measures of perceived crime with observed crime and (2) examine the association between the independent and combined effects of objective and perceived crime on physical activity. Perceived crime and physical activity were assessed in 1659 persons via telephone survey. Crime was objectively measured in a subset of 303 survey participants. For all types of crime, there was low agreement between...

Using TRANUS to Construct a Land Use-Transportation-Emissions Model of Charlotte, North Carolina

Morton, BJ
Rodriguez, DA
Song, Y
Cho, EJ
2012

Integrated land use-transportation-emissions models are necessary to rigorously assess the potential of land use and transportation policies to reduce the vehicular emissions contributing to tropospheric ozone and to fine particulate matter. A theoretically- and empirically-grounded model contains these major components: data on economic sectors, population sectors, and intersectoral flows of commodities and labor; a transportation network; sectoral demands for land, predicting both the quantity and location demanded; elastic trip generation; transportation mode choice including non-...