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Active Transportation and Health Before, During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (27 March 2023) | Viewed by 7538

Special Issue Editors

Dr. David Berrigan

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Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, Behavioral Research Program, National Cancer Institute, 9609 Medical Center Drive MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Interests: cancer prevention; built environment; physical activity; obesity; energy balance; natural experiments; transportation and health; acculturation; geospatial approaches to cancer control; childhood obesity
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Dr. Calvin P. Tribby

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Department of Geography, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: physical activity; Geographic Information Science; transportation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calls for articles concerning active transportation and health before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Active Transportation (AT) is widely viewed as an important target for increasing participation in aerobic physical activity and improving health, while simultaneously addressing pollution and climate change through reductions in motor vehicle emissions. In recent years, progress in increasing AT has stalled in some countries. On the other hand, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created new AT opportunities as well as exposed barriers and health inequities related to AT for some populations. Research and sharing about AT and health is needed to help increase AT mode share, better understand barriers and affordances to AT and further examine AT in diverse settings and populations worldwide.

We welcome submissions concerning active transportation worldwide, including studies of prevalence, correlates, changes over time, environmental influences including built and policy influences and other topics. We are particularly interested in the evaluation of pandemic-related changes to infrastructure including both positive and negative factors such as open streets and pop-up bike lanes versus reductions in public transportation services or obstructions to streets and sidewalks related to changing restaurant or retail environments and research on consequences of keeping or eliminating such changes. Papers addressing transportation and health equity are also especially welcome. Finally, papers exploring AT behavior changes (e.g., substitution or modifications) with leisure time activities, virtual activities, or utilizing delivery services and health are needed.

Dr. David Berrigan
Dr. Calvin P. Tribby
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • active transportation
  • COVID-19
  • climate change
  • physical activity
  • built environment
  • public health

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COVID-19 Vehicle Based on an Efficient Mutual Authentication Scheme for 5G-Enabled Vehicular Fog Computing
by Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda and Selvakumar Manickam
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(23), 15618; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192315618 - 24 Nov 2022
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The COVID-19 pandemic is currently having disastrous effects on every part of human life everywhere in the world. There have been terrible losses for the entire human race in all nations and areas. It is crucial to take good precautions and prevent COVID-19 [...] Read more.
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently having disastrous effects on every part of human life everywhere in the world. There have been terrible losses for the entire human race in all nations and areas. It is crucial to take good precautions and prevent COVID-19 because of its high infectiousness and fatality rate. One of the key spreading routes has been identified to be transportation systems. Therefore, improving infection tracking and healthcare monitoring for high-mobility transportation systems is impractical for pandemic control. In order to enhance driving enjoyment and road safety, 5G-enabled vehicular fog computing may gather and interpret pertinent vehicle data, which open the door to non-contact autonomous healthcare monitoring. Due to the urgent need to contain the automotive pandemic, this paper proposes a COVID-19 vehicle based on an efficient mutual authentication scheme for 5G-enabled vehicular fog computing. The proposed scheme consists of two different aspects of the special flag, SF = 0 and SF = 1, denoting normal and COVID-19 vehicles, respectively. The proposed scheme satisfies privacy and security requirements as well as achieves COVID-19 and healthcare solutions. Finally, the performance evaluation section shows that the proposed scheme is more efficient in terms of communication and computation costs as compared to most recent related works. Full article
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The 2019 Conference on Health and Active Transportation: Research Needs and Opportunities
by David Berrigan, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Michelle Lee, Kelly Rodgers, Janet R. Wojcik, Behram Wali, Calvin P. Tribby, Ralph Buehler, James F. Sallis, Jennifer D. Roberts, Ann Steedly, Binbin Peng, Yochai Eisenberg and Daniel A. Rodriguez
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(22), 11842; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182211842 - 11 Nov 2021
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Active transportation (AT) is widely viewed as an important target for increasing participation in aerobic physical activity and improving health, while simultaneously addressing pollution and climate change through reductions in motor vehicular emissions. In recent years, progress in increasing AT has stalled in [...] Read more.
Active transportation (AT) is widely viewed as an important target for increasing participation in aerobic physical activity and improving health, while simultaneously addressing pollution and climate change through reductions in motor vehicular emissions. In recent years, progress in increasing AT has stalled in some countries and, furthermore, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created new AT opportunities while also exposing the barriers and health inequities related to AT for some populations. This paper describes the results of the December 2019 Conference on Health and Active Transportation (CHAT) which brought together leaders from the transportation and health disciplines. Attendees charted a course for the future around three themes: Reflecting on Innovative Practices, Building Strategic Institutional Relationships, and Identifying Research Needs and Opportunities. This paper focuses on conclusions of the Research Needs and Opportunities theme. We present a conceptual model derived from the conference sessions that considers how economic and systems analysis, evaluation of emerging technologies and policies, efforts to address inclusivity, disparities and equity along with renewed attention to messaging and communication could contribute to overcoming barriers to development and use of AT infrastructure. Specific research gaps concerning these themes are presented. We further discuss the relevance of these themes considering the pandemic. Renewed efforts at research, dissemination and implementation are needed to achieve the potential health and environmental benefits of AT and to preserve positive changes associated with the pandemic while mitigating negative ones. Full article
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