Publications

Background: In the fight against rising overweight and obesity levels, and unhealthy urban environments, the renaissance of active mobility (cycling and walking as a transport mode) is encouraging. Transport mode has been shown to be associated to body mass index (BMI), yet there is limited longitudinal evidence demonstrating causality. We aimed to associate transport mode and BMI cross-sectionally, but also prospectively in the first ever ...

Background Encouraging sustainable travel behavior in emerging adults is important because this transport choice might persist into adulthood. However, research on transport habits in emerging adulthood is scarce. This study aimed to examine potential differences in walking, cycling, car use and public transport use between three groups of emerging adults (secondary school students (17–18 yrs), studying young adults (18–25 yrs) and working young ...

Freight transport is a necessity. It sustains both economy and human life in our current society. However, freight transport also contributes to negative effects like climate change, noise nuisance, air pollution, congestion and accidents. Sustainable freight transport alternatives, like greener vehicles, intermodal solutions and bundling strategies, exist. Still the assessment of their impacts leaves some room for improvement, which on its turn ...

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Understanding which determinants influence modal choice is important towards developing more sustainable transport systems. An improved knowledge about these factors is vital to tackle our current mobility problems in a more efficient and sustainable way. In order to assist to the understanding and modelling of modal choice decisions a review on modal choice and its determinants is carried out. The data collection strategy ...

Introduction This explorative study examines personal and neighbourhood characteristics associated with short-distance trips made by car, bicycle or walking in order to identify target groups for future interventions. Methods Data were derived from ‘Mobility Research Netherlands (2004–2009; MON)’, a dataset including information regarding trips made by household members (n = ±53,000 respondents annually). Using postal codes of household ...

Active transport might be well suited to counteract the decrease in physical activity and the increase in weight gain in students and working young adults (18–25 years). To promote active transport in this neglected age group, knowledge of factors influencing all transport modes is needed. Focus groups were used to explore factors influencing transport choice of studying and working young adults, for short distance travel to various ...

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. This paper presents one of the first models explaining the choice of time-period in road freight transport. Policies that would shift some fraction of the trucks from peak to earlier and later periods will contribute to the reduction of congestion. Therefore there is an increasing interest in modelling the time-period sensitivity of road freight transport to changes in travel time and cost by period. The model developed here ...