Women’s Issues in Transportation: Summary of the 4th International Conference, Volume 2: Technical Papers (2011) / Chapter Skim
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203 Gender Differences in Adolescent Travel to School Exploring the Links with Physical Activity and Health Kelly J Clifton, Portland State University gulsah Akar, Ohio State University Andrea Livi Smith, University of Mary Washington Carolyn C
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204 WOMEN'S ISSuES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLuME 2 to school and levels of physical activity. Analysis relies on cross-sectional data collected from adolescents in Baltimore City for a school-based recruitment study of physical activity and the built environment.
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205gENDER DIFFERENCES IN ADOLESCENT TRAVEL TO SCHOOL in the student participants' home environments, which was an important consideration in the study design. Data analyzed here for each individual include (a)
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206 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 vidual's utility level, uncertainty is introduced into the utility equation (28, 29)
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207GENDER DIFFERENCES IN ADOLESCENT TRAVEL TO SCHOOL difference of the error terms is logistically distributed. Under this assumption the choice probability for alternative i is given by (3)
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208 WOMEN'S ISSuES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLuME 2 hypothesis that all independent variable coefficients are zero for both models. The segmented models show some key differences between the travel choices of boys and girls in their trip to school.
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209gENDER DIFFERENCES IN ADOLESCENT TRAVEL TO SCHOOL may affect behavior. Clifton and Dill (30)
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210 WOMEN'S ISSuES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLuME 2 One must be careful not to attribute causality to these correlations and must interpret them with caution. It is unlikely that the physical activity associated with taking transit -- walking to and from stops -- is responsible for all of these observed differences.
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211gENDER DIFFERENCES IN ADOLESCENT TRAVEL TO SCHOOL bidity and Mortality Weekly Report, Vol.
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212 WOMEN'S ISSuES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLuME 2 Research on Women's Issues in Transportation: Report of a Conference; Volume 2: Technical Papers, Transportation Research Board of the National Academies, Washington, D.C., 2005, pp.
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