Built Environment Interventions to Increase Active Travel: a Critical Review and Discussion.
PURPOSE OF REVIEW
To review the literature on built environment interventions to increase active travel, focusing on work since 2000 and on methodological choices and challenges affecting studies.


RECENT FINDINGS
Increasingly, there is evidence that built environment interventions can lead to more walking or cycling. Evidence is stronger for cycling than for walking interventions, and there is a relative lack of evidence around differential impacts of interventions. Some of the evidence remains methodologically weak, with much work in the 'grey' literature. While evidence in the area continues to grow, data gaps remain. Greater use of quasi-experimental techniques, improvements in routine monitoring of smaller schemes, and the use of new big data sources are promising. More qualitative research could help develop a more sophisticated understanding of behaviour change.
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D001642:Bicycling D000076624:Built Environment D004779:Environment Design D006801:Humans D012107:Research Design D014186:Transportation D016138:Walking
Built environment Active travel Walking Cycling Infrastructure Physical activity