{"id":143,"date":"2014-05-01T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/?p=143"},"modified":"2023-05-18T18:00:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T18:00:06","slug":"structural-and-programmatic-effects-of-bus-rapid-transit-on-physical-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/unpublished\/structural-and-programmatic-effects-of-bus-rapid-transit-on-physical-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Structural and Programmatic Effects of Bus Rapid Transit on Physical Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project expands on the previous Light Rail Transit project to examine whether major transportation infrastructure affects physical activity and the cost effectiveness of those changes from a health perspective. The project is determining whether people living close to two new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines (King County Metro\u2019s Rapid Ride) become more physically active after BRT has been implemented than people living far from the BRT lines. Participants are wearing accelerometers and GPS devices and are keeping a travel log for seven days on three different occasions over the course of this five-year study. The project will also review whether King County Metro\u2019s social marketing campaign <em>In Motion<\/em> will result in residents using transit more often.<\/p>\n<p>Principal Investigators:<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:bsaelens@uw.edu\">Brian E. Saelens<\/a>, Pediatrics, UW<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:fpr@uw.edu\">Frederick P. Rivara<\/a>, Pediatrics, UW<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:moudon@u.washington.edu\">Anne Vernez Moudon<\/a>, Urban Design and Planning, UW<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors:<br \/>\nNational Institutes of Health<br \/>\nNational Heart, Lung and Blood Institute<br \/>\nSeattle Children&#8217;s Research Institute<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled completion: June 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project expands on the previous Light Rail Transit project to examine whether major transportation infrastructure affects physical activity and the cost effectiveness of those changes from a health perspective. The project is determining whether people living close to two new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) lines (King County Metro\u2019s Rapid Ride) become more physically active &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/unpublished\/structural-and-programmatic-effects-of-bus-rapid-transit-on-physical-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Structural and Programmatic Effects of Bus Rapid Transit on Physical Activity<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unpublished"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1519,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/1519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/trac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}