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Travel Behavior and Reduced The Impact of Driving and Physical Activity Walking on Obesity • US average=73 mins/day of driving B0 • 25%of all trips are one mile or less, but 75%of these trips are made by .e. car Every additional 30 minutes e: Automobile Trips spent dnving per day translates • Children between the ages of 5-15 W ° into a /o 3 increase in the odds of walk/bike 40%decrease since 1977 o ion 1910 1000 im x being obesity • For school trips one mile or less, , Every additional Kilometer(6 only 31%are made by walking �� miles)walked translates into ° nearly a 5%reduction to the odds • In the US,6%of tnps are byof being obese walking/btking.In contrast,Italy is r Wa/k and Bike 54%;Sweden,49%. a Trips F—k1 M,-i&h.KT.e.�,e—WPw x„�IM Phr�-1o.d,we,..e ion IBES Im ,BB5 nn rwm.m� The Effect of Mixed Use onO. e The Impact of Land Use on Health and s Behavior _ + ®Minutes Walked • Participants were divided into - 80 four groups based on the level Urban Sprawl of land use mix • so, AM Each quartile increase to land >Large effect on use mix was associated with a utilitarian walking 40 12 20%reduction in the odds of ° D May even reduce • being difference m weight for an leisure time walking 30 average 5'to••wnitemeleain >Increases BMI 20 the lowest quartile of mored use n Increases in BP 10 and the highest quartile of mixed use was 10 pounds 0 i..eP..i �.•,v. agePe� L=W-W ed.ia T.eEOy R-W WIO.0 mftDWM rb�fift ui rl Spmkci d0.4.LLe� i.moa Sprawl Is Associated with More , i d1dings Health Problems Designing 1600 If the average person spent only 1500One 1110re minute per day going 1 1400 -' -in extraupstairs,they would burn, per year,or.8 pokinds. 1300 t kcal -For only 2 minutes per dav, 1200 Low Average High Sprawl Sprawl N Number of chronic conditions per 100,000 persons 6