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Associate Minister of Transport Julie Anne Genter today announced that the NZ Transport Agency will provide $23 million over the next three years to expand the Bikes in Schools and cycle skills education to get more Kiwi kids on their bikes. Cycling is a fun, easy...
Cars are like plastic bags. They’re not bad in themselves, it is just that we use them too often and too much. The crazy thing is that plenty of car trips in urban areas are short. (1) Short enough to walk or cycle. Sometimes we...
This document discusses the findings from ANA's scan of the literature on active transport. Active transport is one way to increase physical activity. Active transport is well known to have environmental and economic benefits. Cycling and walking provide substantial economic benefits for households. A key finding...
This resource published in 2015 by the Ministry of Transport looks at the past 25 years of household travel in New Zealand and related information sources from 1989 to 2014. It highlights a range of changes in our travel behaviour. ...
International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity201714:164 Authors: Lucy Dubrelle Gunn Email author, Suzanne Mavoa, Claire Boulangé, Paula Hooper, Anne Kavanagh and Billie Giles-Corti Abstract: Evidence-based metrics are needed to inform urban policy to create healthy walkable communities. Most active living research has developed metrics of the environment around residential addresses, ignoring other important walking...
Published in the Journal of Transport and Health Authors: Caroline Shaw, Michael Keall, Hayley Guiney Abstract Objective: Active travel is seen as a way to increase net population physical activity. This paper examines whether people in New Zealand who walk, cycle or use public transport to get to their main...
This review has provided a detailed analysis of AST interventions published in peer-reviewed journals between 2010 and 2016. Following systematic literature review procedures’ 18 AST interventions were identified and subsequently analysed. The main findings of our study are: Theory utilization in AST interventions published between...
This factsheet presents statistics on people who had a medical problem but did not visit a GP due to a lack of transport, in the previous 12 months....
This factsheet presents statistics on the main mode of transport that people used to get to work on Census day....
